Eire

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.

eyre, eier, eyer, I. fr. hi old English law. A journey by the justices, called justices in eyre, or justices itinerant, to administer justice; the court of the justices in eyre.

v. Byre. A journey. Eirant: errant, wandering. Bit,/*-. Has.

Eyre, Eier, Eyer. L. Fr. [from Lat. iter, by dropping the t.] In old English law. A journey anciently made by the justices, called justices in eyre, or justices itinerant, (justitiarii in itinere, or itinerantes,) from one place to another, to administer justice. Spelman. Co. Litt. 293 b. Answering nearly to the modern circuit. The court of the justices in eyre. Co. Litt. 293 a. See Eyre, Iter.