Statutuim De Mercatoribus

The statute of Acton Burnell (g. v.) STATUTUM EX GRATIA REGIS DICItur, quando rex dignatur cedere de jure suo regie, pro commode et quiete populi sui. A statute is said to be by the grace of the king when the king deigns to yield some portion of his royal rights for the good and quiet of his people. 2 Inst. 378. STATUTUM GENERALITER EST INtelligendum quando verba statuti sunt specialla, ratio autem generalis. When the words of a statute are special, but the reason of It general. It is to be understood generally. 10 Coke, 101. STATUTUM HIBERNIAE DE COHAEredibus. St. 14 Hen. III. The third public act in the statute book. It has been pronounced not to be a statute. In the form of it, it appears to be an instruction given by the king to his justices in Ireland, directing them how to proceed in a certain point where they entertained doubt. It seems the justices itinerant in that country had a doubt, when land descended to sisters, whether the younger sisters ought to hold of the eldest, and do homage to her for their several portions, or of the chief lord, and do homage to him; and certain knights had been sent over to know what the practice was in England in such a case. 1 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 259.