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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
Inspection; examination.
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View of frankpledge: the office of a sheriff in seeing all the frankpledges of a hundred, and that all youths above fourteen belonged to some tithing; a function of the Court-leet.
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The Court-leet. Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt: laws aid the waking, not the sleeping.