| Sir Edward Coke, John Henry Thomas - 1836 - 772 страници
...personal tithes and offerings which the defunct might in life-time have neglected to pay. 2 Bl. Com. 425 For this purpose after the lord's heriot or best good...chattel •was reserved to the church as a mortuary. Infra, 185 b. A mortuary was anciently called ëaule scent, which signifies pecunia sepulchralis or... | |
| William Blackstone, James Stewart - 1844 - 684 страници
...church ; being intended, as Lyndewode informs us, from a constitution of archbishop Langhain, as a kind of expiation and amends to the clergy for the...best chattel was reserved to the church as a mortuary : " si decedens plura habuerit animalia, optima cut de jure fuerit debitum reservato, ecclesiae su<e... | |
| Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1851 - 570 страници
...a lay heriot,) only a voluntary bequest to the church, being intended, according to Lyndewode, as a kind of expiation and amends to the clergy for the...other ecclesiastical duties, which the laity, in their life time, might have neglected or forgotten to pay, and it was usually the second best beast or chattel,... | |
| John Wood Warter - 1853 - 390 страници
...the Church ; being intended, as Lyndewood informs us from a constitution of Archbishop Langham, as a kind of expiation and amends to the clergy for the...best chattel was reserved to the Church as a mortuary : ' si decedens tria vel plura cujuscunque generis in bonis suis habuerit animalia, optima cui dejure... | |
| John Wood Warter - 1853 - 408 страници
...the Church; being intended, as Lyndewood informs us from a constitution of Archbishop Langham, as a kind of expiation and amends to the clergy for the...best chattel was reserved to the Church as a mortuary : ' si decedens trio, vel plura cujuscunque generis in bonis suis habuerit animatta, optima cui de... | |
| 1858 - 798 страници
...practice as it prevailed in England, two things are to be observed : first, that this soul-scot " was a kind of expiation and amends to the Clergy for the personal tithes, and other ecclesiastical dues, which the laity in their lifetime might have neglected or forgotten to pay;" secondly, that "... | |
| William Blackstone - 1865 - 642 страници
...voluntary bequest to the church; being intended, as a kind of amends to the clergy for the personal tithes which the laity in their lifetime might have neglected...to pay. For this purpose, after the lord's heriot was taken out, the secoud-best chattel was reserved to the church as a mortuary, and is, therefore,... | |
| Henry John Stephen, James Stephen - 1880 - 824 страници
...491.) case of Quakers, 50.'.), or unless [the clergy, for the personal tithes and other ecclesiastieal duties, which the laity in their lifetime might have...best chattel was reserved to the church as a mortuary (x). And therefore in the laws of King Canute this mortuary is called soul-scot (j'aplj•ceat), or... | |
| Henry John Stephen, James Stephen - 1883 - 834 страници
...Church; being intended (as Lyndewoode informs us, from a constitution of Archbishop Langham), as a kind of expiation and amends to the clergy, for the...duties, which the laity in their lifetime might have neg(q) It has been held, however, case of Quakers, 50/.), or unless that "mortuaries" do not come some... | |
| William Blackstone - 1890 - 850 страници
...the church ; being intended, as Lyndewode informs us from a constitution of archbishop Langham, as a kind of expiation and amends to the clergy for the...neglected or forgotten to pay. For this purpose, after f the lord's heriot or best good was taken out, the second best chattel was reserved to the church... | |
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