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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

or EYRE.

In English law

A Journey. 'Justices in eyre were itinerant judges, who were sent once in seven years with a general commission into divers counties, to hear and determine such causes as were called "pleas of the crown."

See "Justices in Eyre." 816.

In the Digests, the word is written "irenarcha." EISDEM MODIS DISSOLVITUR OBLIGAtlo quae nascltur ex contractu, vel quasi, quibus contrahitur. An obligation which arises from contract, or quasi contract, is dissolved in the same ways in which it is contracted. Fleta, lib.

2, c. 60, § 19.