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Statutum Sessionem

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

In old English law. The statute session; a meeting in every hundred of constables and householders, by custom, for the ordering of servants, and debating of differences between masters and servants, rating of wages, etc. 5 Eliz. c. 4. STATUTUM SPECIALE STATUTO SPEciali non derogat. One special statute does not take away from another special statute. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 199. in the twelfth year of Edw. I., being a sort of constitution for the principality of, Wales, which was thereby, in a great measure, put on the footing of England with respect to its laws and the administration of justice. 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 93-99.