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A28468	Nomo-lexikon, a law-dictionary interpreting such difficult and obscure words and terms as are found either in our common or statute, ancient or modern lawes : with references to the several statutes, records, registers, law-books, charters, ancient deeds, and manuscripts, wherein the words are used : and etymologies, where they properly occur / by Thomas Blount of the Inner Temple, Esq.	Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.	1670 (1670)	Wing B3340; ESTC R19028	517,540	312

be in every liberty that has view of Frankpledge for the correction and cooling of Scoldes and unquiet Women Kitchin fo 13. See Cucking-stool Item si aliquis qui in libertatem nostram per assensum consensum Comburgensium nostrorum admissus fuerit fecerit aliquod delictum per quod ad penam publicam seu vile Judicium ut ad Collistrigium vel Tumbrellum vel aliquod aliud hujusmodi adjudicatus fuerit pro perjuro reputabitur ipso facto amittet libertatem suam MS. Codex de LL. Statutis Corfuetud Burgi villae Mountgom fo 11. Tun Is a measure of Oyl or Wine containing twelve score and twelve Gallons or four Hogsheads Anno 1 Rich. 3. ca. 12. 2 Hen. 6. ca. 11. and 12 Car. 2. ca. 4. a Tun of Timber is 40 solid feet a Load 50. Tun-greve Sax. Tungeraefa i. Villae praepositus A Reeve or Bailiff qui in villis quae dicimus Maneriis Domini personam sustinet ejusque vice omnia disponat moderatur Spelman Tunnage al. Tonnage tunnagium tonnagium Is a Custom or Impost due for Merchandise brought or carried in Tuns and such like vessels from or to other Nations after a certain rate for every Tun An. 12 Edw. 4. ca. 3. 6 Hen. 8. ca. 14. 1 Ed. 6. ca. 13. 1 Jac. ca. 33. 12 Car. 2. ca. 4. It is sometimes used for a duty due to the Mariners for unloading their Ship arrived in any Havens after the rate of so much a Tun. Tunnage and Poundage began in the 45th of Edward the third Cottoni posthuma fo 172. See 4 Inst fo 32. Turbary turbaria from turba a turf Is a right or interest to dig turves on another mans ground Kitchin fo 94. And Common of Turbary is a liberty which some Tenants have by prescription to dig turves on the Lords Waste Turbaria is sometimes also taken for the ground where turves are digged Turn turnum Is the Sheriffs Court kept twice every year viz. within a Moneth after Easter and Michaclmas Mag. Charta ca. 35. 3 Edw. 3. ca. 15. From this Court are exempt onely Arch-bishops Bishops Abbots Priors Earls Barons all Religious men and women and all such as have Hundreds of their own to be kept Anno 25 Hen. 3. ca. 10. Britton ca. 29. calls it Tour i. ambitus circuitus It is a Court of Record in all things that pertain to it it is the Kings Leet through all the County and the Sheriff is Judge and this Court is incident to his Office See Cromp. Jur. fo 230. and 4 Inst fo 260. Turney or Tournement Fr. Tourney i. Decursorium Signifies a Martial exercise of Knights or Gentlemen fighting on horseback one with another in disport and is thus defined Torneamenta dicuntur nundinae vel feriae in quibus milites ex condicto convenire ad ostentationem virium suarum audaciae temere congredi solent This word is used in the Statute 24 Hen. 8. ca. 13. but the thing it self is now disused Turno vicecomitum Is a Writ that lies for those that are called to the Sheriffs Turn out of their own Hundred Reg. of Writs fo 174. Twaite Signifies a wood grubbed up and turned to Arable Coke on Litt. fo 4. b. Twa nights geste Hospes duarum noctium If he did harm to any his Host was not answerable for it but himself Hoveden parte poster fo 345. b. See Third-nights-awn-hine Twelve men duodecim homines legales otherwise called the Jury or Enquest is a number of twelve persons or upwards to twenty four by whose Oath as to matters of Fact all Trials pass both in Civil and Criminal Causes through all Courts of the Common Law in this Realm In Civil Causes when proof is made of the matter in question the point of the Fact on which they are to give their verdict is deliver'd likewise to them which we call the Issue then they are put in mind of their Oath to do right and are by the Judges summing up the evidence sent out of the Court by themselves to consider upon the Evidence on both sides untill they are agreed which done they return to the Court and deliver their verdict by the Mouth of their Foreman according to which if the matter be not arrested or staid by the discretion of the Judge or the Court the Judgment passeth In Causes Criminal there are two sorts of Enquests one called the Grand Enquest the other the Enquest of life and death The first is so called either because it consists of sixteen at the least or else because all causes Criminal or Penal first pass through them whereas the other Enquest is especially appointed for one or few matters touching life and death Those of the Grand Enquest are called by Bracton 12 Milites because they were wont to be Knights if so many could be had And their Function is to receive all Presentments of any Offence and accordingly to give their general opinion of them by writing either these words billa vera upon the Bill of Presentment which is an Inditement of the Party presented or else Ignoramus which is a doubting of the Fact presented Of this read more in Inditement Assise Jury See the Statute 35 Hen. 8. ca. 6. 37 ejusdem ca. 22. 2 Ed. 6. ca. 32. 5 Eliz. ca. 25. Tymber of skins Is 40 skins Book of Rates fo 18. Tympeny Abbas Monachi Rading Sint quieti de tributis lastagiis stallagiis de Thething-peny Tympeny de summonitionibus de Assisis super assisis c. In Memorand Scacc. de Anno 20 Ed. 3. in t Record de Trin. Rot. 3. I find it elsewhere written Tinpeny Mon. Angl. 1 Par. fo 419. a. Quaere U. VAcation Vacatio Is all the time respectively betwixt the end of every Term and beginning of the next when such times began and ended in our Ancestors dayes See Hovedens Annals Par post fo 343. a. where you shall find that this intermission was called Pax dei Ecclesiae Also the time from the death of a Bishop or other Spiritual person till the Bishoprick or other Dignity be supplyed with another is called Vacation Westm 1. ca. 21. 14 Edw. 3. ca. 4. 5. See Plenarty Uaccarie alias Uaccharie Vaccaria al. Vaccharia and Vacheria Is a House or place to keep Cowes in Fleta lib. 2. ca. 41. Domus sive locus quo vaccae aluntur vel quo negotium quod ad eos attinet perficitur Spelm. A Dairy-house Without warrant no Subject may have a Vaccary within the Forrest Crom. Jur. fo 194. But in the Stat. 37 Hen. 8. ca. 16. Vacchary seems to be a special name of a certain compass of ground within the Forest of Ashdown Uaga See Waga Uagabond Vagabundus One that wanders about and has no certain dwelling an idle Fellow Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars mentioned in divers Statutes De Vagabundis aliis hominibus mendicantibus qui se

Mint see in Cowels Interpreter verbo Mint Minute tythes Minutae sive minores decima Small Tythes such as usually belong to the Viccar as of Herbs Seeds Eggs Honey Wax c. See 2 Part Inst fo 649. and Udal Tindals case Hill 22 Jac. where the tyth of Woad was adjudged to be minuta decima 3 Part Crokes Rep. fo 21. See Tithes Misaventure or Misadventure Fr. Mesadventure i. Infortunium Has an especial signification for the killing a man partly by negligence and partly by chance As if one thinking no harm carelesly throwes a stone or shoots an Arrow wherewith he kills another In this case he commits not Felony but onely loseth his goods and has a Pardon of course for his life Stam. Pl. Cor. lib. 1. ca. 8. Britton ca. 7. distinguishes between Aventure and Misavonture The first he makes to be meer chance as if a Man being upon or near the Water be taken with some sudden sickness and so fall in and is drowned or into the fire and is burnt Misaventure he says is where a man comes to his death by some outward violence as the fall of a Tree the running of a Cart-wheel the stroke of a Horse or such like So that Misadventure in Stamfords opinion is construed somewhat more largely then Britton understands it West part 2. Symbol tit Inditement Sect. 48 49. makes Homicide casual to be meerly casual or mixt Homicide by meer chance he defines to be when a man is slain by meer fortune against the mind of the killer as if one hewing the Axe flies off the haft and kills a man And this is al one with Brittons Misaventure Homicide by chance mix'd he defines Sect. 50. to be when the killers ignorance or negligence is joyned with the chance as if a man lop Trees by a high-way side in which many usually travel and cast down a Bough not giving warning c. by which Bough a man is slain Miscognisant Ignorant or not knowing In the Stat. 32 Hen. 8. ca. 9. against Champertie and Maintenance It is ordained that the Justices of Assise shall twice in the year in every County cause open Proclamation to be made of this present Act and of every thing therein contained c. to the intent that no person should be ignorant or miscognisant of the dangers and penalties therein contained Miscontinuance Kitchin fo 231. the same with Discontinuance which see Mise A French word signifying expence or disbursement sometimes written Missum in Lat. and sometimes Misa has divers significations first it is a kind of honourable gift or customary present with which the People of Wales are wont to salute every new King and Prince of Wales at their entrance into that Principality It was anciently given in Cattel Wine and Corn for sustentation of the Princes Family but when that Dominion was annexed to the English Crown the Gift was changed into Money and the Summ is 5000 l. Sterling or More and it hapned to be thrice paid in King James's Reign First at his own coming to the Crown and that Principality Secondly when Prince Henry was created Prince of Wales And Thirdly When King Charles the First succeeded him in that Principality Anno 27 Hen. 8. ca. 26. it is ordained That Lords Mayors shall have all such Mises and profits of their Lands as they have had in times past c. Misae etiam dicuntur praestationes illae quas ob fruendas pristinas immunitates Cestriae Palatinatus subditi novo cuique Comiti impendunt i. 3000 Marks for that County Sometimes Mises are taken for Taxes or Tallages Anno 25 Edw. 1. ca. 5. Sometimes for Costs or Expences as pro misis custagiis for Costs and Charges in the Entries of Judgments in personal Actions Mise is also a word of Art appropriated to a Writ of right so called because both parties have put themselves upon the meer right to be tryed by the grand Assise or by Battel so as that which in all other Actions is called an Issue in a Writ of Right in that case is called a Mise But in a Writ of Right if a collateral point be tryed there it is called an Issue and is derived from missum because the whole cause is put upon this point Coke on Litt. fol. 294. b. Anno 37 Ed. 3. ca. 16. To joyn the Mise upon the Meer is as much as to say to joyn the Mise upon the cleer right and that more plainly to joyn upon this point whether has the more right the Tenant or Demandant Mise is sometimes used as a Participle for cast or put upon Cokes 6 Rep. Saffins Case and sometimes corruptly for Mease a Messuage or Tenement As a Mise-place in some Mannors is taken to be such a Messuage or Tenement as answers the Lord a Herriot at the death of its owner 2 Inst fo 528. which in our French is written Mees Ceste Endenture temoigne que come Will. Terrye de Dounham tiegne de Johan de Veer Coonte d'Oxenford un Mees sys acres de terre c. dat 14 Ed. 3. penes Wil. Andrew Baronet Miserere Is the name and first word of one of the Paenitential Psalmes most commonly that which the Ordinary gives to such guilty Malefactors as have the benefit of the Clergy allowed by Law and it is usually called the Psalm of mercy Misericordia Is used for an Arbitrary Amerciament or Punishment imposed on any Person for an offence For where the Plaintiff or Defendant in any Action is amerced the Entry is always Ideo in misericordia c. And it is called Misericordia as Fitzherbert says Nat. Br. fol. 75. for that it ought to be but small and less then the offence according to the tenor of Magna Charta cap. 14. Therefore if a Man be unreasonably amerced in a Court not of Record as in a Court Baron c. there is a Writ called Moderata Misericordia directed to the Lord or his Bailiff commanding them that they take Moderate Amerciaments according to the quality of the fault Est enim misericordia Domini Regis says Glanvile quà quis per juramentum legalium hominum de viceneto eatenus amerciandus est ne aliquid de suo honorabili contenemento amittat And again Mulcta lenior sic dicta quòd lenissima imponitur misericordia graviores enim mulctas Fines vocant atrocissimas Redemptiones See Glanv pag. 75. a. And see Moderata Misericordia He shall be in the great Mercy of the King Westm 1. cap. 15. Misfeasans Misdoings or Trespasses Jury to enquire of all Purprestures Misfeasans 2 Part Croke fol. 498. And Misfeasor a Trespasser 2 Inst fol. 200. Mishering Est de estre quit de amerciemenz pur quereles en aucun Courts devant qui que il seyt nent ordinament ou proprement demonstre MS. LL. Temp. E. 2. See Abishersing and Miskering Miskenning Meskenninga LL. Hen. 1. cap. 12. Iniqua vel injusta in jus vocatio inconstanter loqui in