Articuli

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In old English law

Articles; items or heads. Applied to some old statutes, and occasionally to treatises, v. Articles. Articuli ad Novas Narrationes: articles on the New Tales, — the title of a small treatise on pleading, subjoined to the collection called Novae Narrationes. Articuli cleri: articles of the clergy, — the title of a statute passed in the ninth year of Edward II. to adjust the questions of cognizance then existing between the ecclesiastical and the temporal courts. Articuli de nioneta: articles concerning money the original articles or heads of agreement upon which King John'a charter was founded. Articuli super chartas: articles upon the charters, — the title of a statute passed in the twenty-eighth year of Edward 1, st 8, confirming or enlarging Magna Charta and the Charta de Foresta, and appointing a method for enforcing the observance of them.