Eyre
Defined in 8 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
See "Eire." F. The sixth letter of the alphabet. A fighter or maker of frays, if he had no ears, •was to be branded in the cheek with this letter. Cowell. Those who had been guilty of falsity were to be so marked. 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 392.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
The highest of the courts of the forest, held every three years, by the chief justice, to inquire of purprestures or encroachments, assarts, or cultivation of forest land, claims to franchises, parks, warrens, and vineyards in the forest, as well as claims of the hundred, claims to the goods of felons found in the forest, and any other civil questions that might arise within the forest limits. But it had no criminal jurisdiction, except of offences against the forest laws. In the exercise of this, he passed sentences upon offenders convicted by the verderers in Swanimote (see Court of Swanimote) and performed all the duties of a justice in eyre (q. v.). It was called also the court of justice seat. Inderwick, King's Peace. See Forest Laws; Courts of the Forest. Since the Restoration the forest laws have fallen into disuse. The office was abolished in 1817.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
eire, eier, eyer.
In old English law. A journey; the journey or circuit of the king's justices; the court of the justices itinerant, or justices in eyre.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Justices in eyre were judges commissioned in Anglo-Norman times in England to travel systematically through the kingdom, once in seven years, holding courts in specifled places for the trial of certain deseriptions of causes.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
A way, journey; the journey of a justice about his circuit; V. Assize. The Justices in eyre were estabhshed in 1176 with a delegated power from the aula regia, and made their circuit around the kingdom once in seven years for the purpose of trying various causes; they were superseded by the justices of Assize and Nisi prius. Ez arts,/r. At arts, of arts. F.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
Eire, Eier, Eyer. L. Fr. A Eng, [Scotch ayre, ayr; from Lat. iter^ a journey.J In old English law. A jonmey; the journey or circuit of the king's justices. Britt. c. 2. See Eire. The court of the justices itinerant, or justices in eyre. Britt. c. 2. Co, Litt. 293. Gilb. C. Pleas, Introd. 23. 1 Beeves' Hist. Eng. Law, 52. Spelman, voc. Iter.