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Marches

Defined in 7 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Abbott (1879), Bouvier (1839)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Boundaries; frontiers.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Limits; confines; borders. Especially used of the limits between England and Wales and between England and Scotland. Ersk. Inst. 2. 6. 4.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

An old English term for boundaries or frontiers, particularly the boundaries and limits between England and Wales or between England and Scotland or the barders of the dominions of the crown or the boundaries of properties in Scotland. Mozley & Whitley.

Marches, court of. An abolished tribunal in Wales, where pleas of debt or damages, not above the value of f5O, were tried and determined. Cro. Car. 384.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

Limits; bounds or borders; particularly borders between England and Wales, and borders between England and Scotland.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

An old English term for boundaries or frontiers, particularly the boundaries and limits between England and Wales, or between England and Seotland, or the borders of the dominions of the crown, or the boundaries of properties in Scotland, Mozley & Whitley.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

An old English term for boundaries or frontiers, particularly the boundaries and limits between England and Wales, or between England and Scotland, or the borders of the dominions of the crown, or the boundaries of properties in Scotland. Modey §■ W. Court of inarches was the name of a tribunal of Wales, where pleas of debt or damages, not exceeding £50, were tried and determined. Tamlins.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

John Bouvier · 1839

Engl. law. This word signifies the limits, or confines, or borders. Bac. Law Tracts, tit. Jurisdiction of the Marches, p. 246. It was applied to the limits between England and Wales or Scotland. In Scotland the term marches is applied to the boundaries between private properties.