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Year books






Year books

These were books of reports of cases in a regular series from the reign of the English King to the time of Henry VIII, which were taken by the prothonotaries or chief scribes of the courts, at the expense of the crown, and published annually, whence their name Year Books

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Were
The name of a fine among the Saxons imposed upon a murderer

Books
Commerce, accounts. Merchants, traders, and other persons, who are desirous of understanding their affairs, and of explaining them when necessary, keep, 1. a day book; 2. a journal; 3. a ledger; 4. a letter book; 5. an invoice book; 6. a cash book; 7. a bill book; 8. a bank book; and 9. a cheek book. The reader is referred to these several articles

Reports
Law books, containing a statement of the facts and law of each case which has been decided by the courts; they are generally the most certain proof of the judicial decisions of the courts, and contain the most satisfactory evidence, and the most authoritative and precise application of the rules of the common law.

Cases
General term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; questions contested before a court of justice.

King
The chief magistrate of a kingdom, vested usually with the executive power.

Time
Contracts, evidence, practice. The measure of duration., It is divided into years, months. days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It is also divided into day and night. 2) Pleading. The avertment of time is generally necessary in pleading; the rules are different, in different actions.

Chief
Principal. One who is put above the rest.

Crown
A covering for the head, commonly used by kings; figuratively, it signifies royal authority.

Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.



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Year and day
This period of time is particularly recognized in the law. For example, when a judgment is reversed, a party, notwithstanding the lapse of time mentioned in the statute of limitations pending that action, may commence a fresh action within a year and a day of such reversal; again, after a year and a day have elapsed from the day of signing a judgment, no execution can be issued until the judgment shall have been revived by scire facias

Years
Estate for years.



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Yellow brick road
In the US penitentiary slang, yellow lines indicaing path that prisoners from stay within.

Yo yo
In the US penitentiary slang, a person who is not sexually active with other prisoners.

Yard
1) A measure of length, containing three feet, or thirty-six inches.2) Estates.A piece of land enclosed for the use and accommodation of the inhabitants of a house. In England it is nearly synonymous with backside

Yardland
Old English law. A quantity of land containing twenty acres.

Year and day
This period of time is particularly recognized in the law. For example, when a judgment is reversed, a party, notwithstanding the lapse of time mentioned in the statute of limitations pending that action, may commence a fresh action within a year and a day of such reversal; again, after a year and a day have elapsed from the day of signing a judgment, no execution can be issued until the judgment shall have been revived by scire facias

Year books

Years
Estate for years.

Yeas and nays
The list of members of a legislative body voting in the affirmative and negative of a proposition is so called

Yeoman
1) United States. This word does not appear to have any very exact meaning. It is usually put as an addition to the names of parties in declarations and indictments. 2) In England it signifies a free man who has land of the value of forty shillings a year.

Yield capitalization
A capitalization method used to convert future benefits to present value by discounting each future benefit at an appropriate yield rate or by developing an overall rate that reflects the investment's income pattern, value change, and yield rate.

Yielding and paying contracts
These words, when used in a lease, constitute a covenant on the part of the lessee to pay the rent

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