Aesnecia
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
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.