Trinoda necessitas
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Lat.
In Saxon law. A threefold necessity or burden. A term used to denote the three things from contributing to the performance of which no lands were exempted, viz., pontis reparatio, (the repair of bridges,) arcis constructio, (the building of castles,) et expeditio contra hostem, (military service against an enemy.) 1 Bl. Comm. 263, 357.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
I. I.
In Saxon law. A threefold necessity or burden. A term used to denote the three things for which all land.s were bound to contribute,— the repair of bridges, the building of castles, mi Utary service against an enemy.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
/. (Threefold burden of repairing bridges, building pel invasions, to which, by Saxon law,
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
A threefold necessity; a threefold burden. This expression denoted the three public necessities to which all lands were liable under Saxon law; which were: the repair of bridges; the building of castles; and military service against an enemy.