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Caursines

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Italian merchants who came into England in the reign of Henry

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Italian merchants who came into England in the reign of Henry III., where they established themselves as money lenders, but were soon expelled for their usury and extortion. Cowell; Blount.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

Italian merchants who came non est sperandns; et nemo not to be expected, and no supponendas: a fortuitous omissus: a case omitted, omission of a statute to prodatiis disposition! juris and forgotten is left to the; an extraordinary casualty,; all property movable and Catalla otiosa: dead goods; idle cattle, that is, such De catallis, etc. Catallis capite or in chief; a captain. an heir expectant for the price. formerly used not as a term epithet. chain. Catenavit et in ferris. law. The statute of 10 Geo. restored to the enjoyment ecclesiastical and certain universal creditor; one whose debtor's property. horses, sheep, asses and pasture cattle in the land of land's end; or the bottom or arable land; the bottom or unploughed land at the lowei was at the upper end. causeys. Caupones: innkeepers. tavern. into England in the reign of

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Italian merchiunts who came into Eng)and in the reign of Henry

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

[L. Lat. caorcini, caursini, corsini.] Italian merchants who came into England in the reign of Henry III., where they established themselves as money lenders, but were soon expelled for their usury and extortion. Cowell. Blount. Spelman, voc. Caursini. Matth. Paris, cited ibid. They seem to have been Lombards, deriving their name from a town in Lombardy.