Aesnecia

In old English law. Esnecy; the right or privilege of the eldest born. Spelman; Glanv. lib. 7, c. 3; Fleta, lib. 2, c. 66, §§ 5, 6. The privilege allowed the eldest daughter of drawing first- in the partition of lands by lot. Called, also, pars enecia, enetia, or eneia. Bracton, fol. 75. AESTIMATIO CAPITIS (Lat. the value of a head). The price to be paid for taking the life of a human being. King Athelstan declared, in an assembly held at Exeter, that mulcts were to be paid per aestimatio capitis. For a king's head (or life), 30,000 thuringae; for an archbishop's or prince's, 15,000; for a priest's or thane's, 2,000. Leg. Hen. I. AESTIMATIO PRAETERITI DELICTI ex postremo facto nunquam crescit. The estimation of a crime committed never increases from a subsequent fact. Bac. Max. reg. 8; Dig. 50. 17. 139; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 17.