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Regnum non est divisibile

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The kingdom is not divisible. Co. Litt. 165. RE6RANT. In the English law of real property, when, after a person has made a grant, the property granted comes back to him (e. g., by escheat.or forfeiture), and he grants it again, he is said to have regranted it. The phrase is chiefly used in the law of copyholds. Thus, before the fines and recoveries act, one mode of barring an entail in copyhold was a preconcerted forfeiture by the tenant, followed by a regrant to him in fee by the lord. REGRATIN6.

In criminal law. Every practice or device, by act, conspiracy, words, or news, to enhance the price of victuals or other merchandise, is so denominated. 3 Inst. 196; 1 Russ. Crimes, 169. In the Roman law, persons who monopolized grain, and other produce of the earth, were called dardanarii, and were variously punished. Dig. 47. 11. 6.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

The kingdom is not divisible.