Wikipedia:1911 Encyclopedia topics/Categorised/11

These are Law terms and odd or obsolete stuff. Some probably have existing equivalents, but they are not likely to be a direct transfer. Some of the info in these articles may be useful and partial merges may be possible. Then again, some may be here wrongly and be perfectly transferable. Just trying to get a focus on stuff that looks like it's being ignored. If something looks like it can't be transferred as-is, it can be moved to page 16, which is for articles under consideration for non-inclusion (there it will get more focused attention).


 * 1) Barmote Court - name applied to courts held in the lead-mining districts of Derbyshire
 * 2) Bocland, Bookland - an original mode of tenure of land, also called charter-land or deed-land
 * 3) Brigandage - robbery and plundering committed by armed bands, often associated with forests or mountain regions
 * 4) Castle-guard - an arrangement under the feudal system, by which the duty of finding knights to guard...
 * 5) Cestuy; Cestui - an Anglo-French word, meaning ii that person, which appears in the legal phrases cestui que trust, use, or vie...
 * 6) Chance medley - old term in English law for a form of homicide arising out of a sudden affray or quarrel
 * 7) Charter-party - contract between merchant and shipowner
 * 8) Chartered companies -
 * 9) Church Rate - the name of a tax formerly levied in each parish in England and Ireland for the benefit of the parish church. Establishment of religion and antidisestablishmentarianism.
 * 10) Commercial court -
 * 11) Commercial treaty -
 * 12) Commers - German term for the German students social gatherings
 * 13) Commissionaire -
 * 14) Common lodging-house - a house, or part of a house, where persons of the poorer classes are received for gain, and in which they use one or more rooms in common with the rest of the "inmates"...
 * 15) Conditional fee - "in English common law, a fee or estate restrained in its form of donation to some particular heirs..."
 * 16) Conditional limitation -
 * 17) Confession and avoidance - "in pleading, the plea admitting that facts alleged in a declaration are true, but showing new facts by which it is hoped to destroy the effect of the allegations admitted..." short article
 * 18) Confirmation of bishops - "In canon law confirmation is the act by which the election of a new bishop receives the assent of the proper ecclesiastical authority." Likely covered already, so check.
 * 19) Conseil de Famille - in France, an institution for the protection of the interests of minors
 * 20) Consistory courts -
 * 21) Consolidation Acts - "The practice of legislating for small portions of a subject only at a time, which is characteristic of the English parliament, produces as a necessary consequence great confusion in the statute law."
 * 22) Consulate of the Sea - "a celebrated collection of maritime customs and ordinances in the Catalan language, published at Barcelona in the latter part of the 15th century." Might be transferrable as it is taking about a specific work.
 * 23) Coparcenary - in law, the descent of lands of inheritance from an ancestor to two or more persons possessing an equal title to them
 * 24) Corrupt practices  - a term used in English election law
 * 25) Culprit - the prisoner at the bar, one accused of a crime
 * 26) Cumnock and Holmhead See Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock (UK Parliament constituency). The Brits name their parliamentary constituencies; we Americans merely number them.
 * 27) Customary freehold - "in English law, a species of tenure which may be described as a variety of copyhold."
 * 28) Denizen - English legal term
 * 29) Detainer - in law, the act of keeping a person against his will...
 * 30) Disorderly house - in law, a house in which the conduct of its inmates is such as to become a public nuisance; -- often a euphemism for a brothel or unlicensed drinking-den
 * 31) Dogmatic theology - Dogma
 * 32) Donatio mortis causa - (grant in case of death), in law, a gift of personal property made in contemplation of death...
 * 33) Ecclesiastical Commissioners -
 * 34) Ecclesiastical jurisdiction -
 * 35) Employer liability –
 * 36) 'English finance - renamed History of the English fiscal system
 * 37) Engrossing – "a term used in two legal senses: (I) the writing or copying of a legal or other document in a fair large hand (en gros), and (2) the buying up of goods wholesale in order to sell at a higher price so as to establish a monopoly."
 * 38) Establishment of a port -
 * 39) Estate and house agents -
 * 40) Feu - in Scotland, the commonest mode of land tenure
 * 41) Frank-Almoign - in the English law of real property, a species of spiritual tenure...
 * 42) Germanic Laws -
 * 43) Early Germanic Laws -
 * 44) Imperial Chamber - the supreme judicial court of the Holy Roman Empire
 * 45) Judgment debtor -
 * 46) Judgment summons -
 * 47) Labour legislation -
 * 48) Lapse - a law term
 * 49) Law for children – Child labor laws? Law relating to children?
 * 50) Law Relating To Nonconformity - relates to Nonconformism
 * 51) Laws relating to seamen -
 * 52) Legal maxim - A maxim is an established principle or proposition, legal stuff
 * 53) Lincoln Judgment - celebrated English ecclesiastical suit
 * 54) Liquor laws -
 * 55) Lords Justices of Appeal -
 * 56) Maiming - probable legal term (seems to be the thrust of the article)
 * 57) Makingup price -
 * 58) Man-traps - trap set to catch trespassers or poachers
 * 59) Mare Clausum and Mare Liberum - legal terms (chiefly 17th century, see Hugo Grotius)
 * 60) Maritime territory - legal term
 * 61) Mark system - "the name given to a social organization which rests on the common tenure and common cultivation of the land by small groups of freemen"
 * 62) Medical jurisprudence -
 * 63) Memorandum of Association – "in English company law a document subscribed to by seven or more persons associatec for any lawful purpose, by subscribing to which, and otherwise complying with the, requisitions of the Companies Acts in respec of registration, they may form themselves into an incorporatec company, with or without limited liability." = the entire article
 * 64) Mercantile agencies -
 * 65) Monetary Conferences –
 * 66) Money-Lending - lending of money on usury
 * 67) Moolvie - the name used in India of a man learned in Mahommedan law
 * 68) National Workshops -
 * 69) Navigation Laws - prolly obsolete
 * 70) North Sea Fisheries Convention -
 * 71) Offence against the person -
 * 72) Ouster Legal term, better suited to a dictionary
 * 73) Overt Act - in law, an open act, one that can be clearly proved by evidence
 * 74) Payment –
 * 75) Payment of members - paying a state salary to members of the legislative body
 * 76) Peace Conferences –
 * 77) Perquisite - term properly used of the profits which accrue to the holder of an office over and above the regular emoluments...
 * 78) Polygenists - term applied to those anthropologists who contend that the several primary races of mankind are separate species of independent origin
 * 79) Press laws – may have some useful info on press freedom, etc.
 * 80) Proces-verbal - in French law, a detailed authenticated account drawn up by a magistrate, police officer, or...
 * 81) Provision - a term meaning strictly the act of providing... (legal term)
 * 82) Provisional Order - procedure followed by several government departments in England, authorizing action on the part of local authorities under various acts of parliament (1911)
 * 83) Court of Quarter Sessions - ancient English legal term
 * 84) Refresher - English legal phraseology, a further or additional fee paid to counsel...
 * 85) Regrating eb1911 - "in English criminal law, was the offence of buying and selling again in the same market, or within four miles thereof"
 * 86) Respite - properly a delay, given for the further consideration. of some matter, hence relief. In law the term is used of the postponement of the immediate execution of the law in criminal cases, e.g. by binding a convicted prisoner over to come up for judgment when called upon, or when a case is respited from one quarter sessions to another. The word is loosely used in the sense of a reprieve. This is the entire article.
 * 87) Reversion remainder - English law a remainder or reversion is classed either as an incorporeal hereditament...
 * 88) Court of Rota - one of the departments of the medieval papal organization
 * 89) Roundsman System eb1911 -  in the English poor law, a plan by which the parish paid the occupiers of property to employ the applicants for relief
 * 90) Statute merchant - Statute Stable, two old forms of security, long obsolete in English practice; legal terms
 * 91) General-Governorship of Steppes -
 * 92) Tenant-right eb1911 Legal term.; part of 1911 tenant article
 * 93) Trade organization -
 * 94) University court - in the English universities of Oxford and Cambridge, courts of inferior jurisdiction...
 * 95) Valuation and Valuers -
 * 96) Vavassor - in its most general sense a mediate vassal; legal term