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Clausum

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. I.

In old English law

A close; an enclosure. Clansum fregit: he broke the close. Technical words formerly used in certain actions of trespass, and still retained in the phrase qiiare clausum fregit: the breaking of a close. Clansum Paschse: the close of Easter; the octave of Easter, i. e. the eighth day after the feast of Easter. So called because it closed the feast