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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In Scotch law

The decisions of the court of session, as evidence of the practice or custom of the country. Bell, Diet. PRAEBENDA (Law Lat.) In old English law. A prebend. Bracton, fol.

442b; Fleta, lib. 2, c. 54, § 10; Id. c. 69, § 3.

An allowance of fodder for horses and cattle. Fleta, lib.

2, c. 76, § 8.

PRAECEPTORES (Lat.) Heretofore masters in chancery were so called, as having the direction of making out remedial writs.

Fleta, 76; 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 251.

A species of benefice, so called from being possessed by the principal templars (praeeeptores templi), whom the chief master by his authority created.

2 Mon. Angl. 643.