Statute-merchant
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
A bond or acknowledgment of debt entered into by a debtor before the chief magistrate of some trading town, by which the debtor's goods and lands might be seized and his body imprisoned; authorized by the statute De Mercatoribm. A Statute-staple is a similar bond acknowledged before the mayor of the Steele, authorized by the 27 Edw. III. c.
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Eor other statutes, see their titles.