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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

STATUTE OF. An important English statute, 52 Hen. III. (1267), relating to wrongful distress. It derived its name from the town in Wiltshire in which parliament sat when it was enacted, now known as Marlborough.

See 6 Chitty, Eng. Stat; 2 Reeve, Hist. E. L. 62; Crabb, Com. Law 166; 1 Soc. Eng. 410.