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  • SHEADING
    A riding, tithing, or division in the Isle of Man, where the whole island is divided into six sheadings, in each of which there is a coroner or chief constable appointed by a delivery of a rod at tbe Tlnewald court or annual convention. King* Isle of Man, 7.
  • SHEEP
    A wether more than a year old. Rex v. Blrket, 4 Car. & P. 216.
  • SHEEP-HEAVES
    Small plots of pasture, in England, often in the middle of the waste of a manor, of which the soil may or may not be in the lord, but the pasture is private property, and leased or sold as such. They principally occur in the northern counties, (Cooke, IncL Acts, More...
  • SHEEP-SILVER
    A service turned Into money, which was paid in respect that anciently the tenants used to wash the lord's sheep. Wharton.
  • SHEEP-SKIN
    A deed; so called from the parchment ft was written on.
  • SHEEP-WALK
    A right of sheep-walk bi the same thing as a fold-course, (q.v.) Elton, Commons, 44.
  • SHELLEY'S CASE, RULE OF
    "When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, taketh an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate ia limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs in fee or ha tall, the 'heirs' are words of lim-' itation of the estate, and not words of More...
  • SHEPWAY, COURT-OF
    A court held before the lord warden of the Cinque Ports. A writ of error lay from the mayor and jurats of each port to the lord warden in this court and thence to the queen's bench. The civil jurisdiction of the Cinque Ports is abolished by 18 & 19 More...
  • SHEREFFE
    The body of the lordship of Cardiff In South Wales, excluding the members of it Powel, Hist. Wales, 123.
  • SHERIFFALTY
    The time of a man's being sheriff. Cowell. The term of a sheriff's office.
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