Memoby
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
1.
The mental faculty by which passed impressions are reproduced.
See Refresh.
3.
Mental capacity; understanding: as, sane memory, sound and disposing mind and memory. See Mind. Legal memory; memory of man; time of memory. Originally, indefinite, but by statute in 1276, made to begin with the reign of Richard I, 1189. At another time the period was practically sixty years. In 1832, it was changed to twenty years. ^ Immemorial. Beginning or occurring time out of mind: as, an immemorial cus- • torn, q.
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