Westminster

A city adjacent to London; the seat of the four superior courts of the kingdom. Westminster I.: a statute of 3 Edw. I. containing fifty-one chapters and many provisions respecting the purgation of clerks, felons, paine forte et dure, marriage of wards, etc. Westminster II.: a statute of 13 Edw. I. containing the statute de donts and various provisions respecting /ormedon, advowsons. vouching to warranty, etc. Westminster III.: the statute of 18 Edw. I., commonly known as the statute of Quia emptores.