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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 ancient English ordinance or statute, 20 Hen. III. (1235), which took its name from the place in the county of Surrey where parliament sat when it was enacted. Its provisions related chiefiy to dower, usury, legitimacy of children, the right of freeman to make suit by attorney at the lord’s or any county court, the inclosure of common lands, wardships.
2. Inst. 79; Barring. Stat. 41, 46; Hale, Hist. ME8CR0YANT.
An unbeliever, as used in ancient books.
ME8E.
An ancient word used to signify house, probably from the French maison. It is said that by this word the buildings, curtilage, orchards, and gardens will pass; Co. Lltt. 66. Mesmerism, see hypnotism.