De Anno Bissextili

Of the bissextile or leap year. The title of a statute passed in the twenty-first year of Henry III., which in fact, hovirever, is nothing more than a sort of writ or direction to the justices of the bench, instructing them how the extraordinary day in the leap year was to be reckoned in cases where persons had a day to appear at the distance of a year, as on the essoin de malo lecti, and the like. It was thereby directed that the additional course, within the preceding year. 1 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 266. DE ANNUA PENSIONE (Lat. of annual pension). A writ by which the king, having due unto him an annual - pension from any abbot or prior for any of his chaplains which he will name who is not provided with a competent living, demands it of the said abbot or prior for the one that is named in the writ. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 231; Termes de la Ley. DE ANNUO REDITU (Lat. for a yearly rent). A writ to recover an annuity, no matter how payable. 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 258. DE APOSTATA CAPIENDO (Lat. for tak' ing an apostate). A writ directed to the sheriff for the taking the body of one who, having entered into and professed some order of religion, leaves his order and departs from his house and wanders in the country. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 233; Termes de la Ley. DE ARBITRATION E FACTA (Lat. of arbitration had). A writ formerly used when an action was brought for a cause which had been settled by arbitration. Watson Arb. 256. DE ARRESTANDIS BONIS NE DISSIpentur. An old writ which lay to seize goods in the hands of a party during the pendency of a suit, to prevent their being made away with. Reg. Orig. 126b. DE ARRESTANDO IPSUM QUI PECUnlam receplt. A writ which lay for the arrest of one who had taken the king's money to serve in the war, and hid himself to escape going. Reg. Orig. 24b; Blount.

Of the bissextile or leap year. The title of a statute pissed in the twenty-first year of Henry IIL, which in fact, however, is nothing more than a sort of writ or direction to the justices of the bench, instructing them how the extraordinary day in the leap year was to be reckoned in cases where persons had a day to appear at the distance of a year, as on the essoin de malo fecti, and the like. It was thereby directed that the additional day should, together with that which went before, be reckoned only as one, and go, of course, Within the preceding year. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 266.

Of the bissextile or leap year. The title of a statute passed in the 21st year of Henry IIL which in fact, however, is nothing more than a sort of writ or direction to the justices of the bench, instructing them how the extraordinary day in the leap year was to be reckoned in cases where persons had a day to appear at the distance of a year, as on the essoin de malo lecti, and the like. It was thereby directed that the additional day should, together with that which went before, be reckoned only as one, and so, of course, within the preceding year. 1 Beeves* Hist. Eng. Law, 266. See Bissextile.