Reeve Sentence Examples

These included hereditary succession to tenements, exemption from sullage, the right to elect a reeve (praepositus) if the grantor thought one necessary and the right to marry without the lord's interference.

In the [[[Lapland]]] marshes, a reeve now and then flies near with a scarcely audible ka-ka-kuk; but she seems a dull bird, and makes no noisy attack on an invader."

Aaron Burr, whose only sister married Tapping Reeve (1744-1823), lived in Litchfield with Reeve in 1774-1775.

Its affairs were entrusted to a reeve or bailiff acting in conjunction with the principal men of the town.

The pulvillus is From Miall and Denny, The Cockroach, Lovell Reeve & Co.

It is the more curious that the gerefa should end as a servant ("reeve"), the Graf as a noble (count).

Thus ends the Saxon period, and the Norman period in London begins with the submission of the citizens as distinct from the action of the rest of the kingdom, which submission resulted soon afterwards in the Conqueror's remarkable charter to William the bishop and Gosfrith the portcity, reeve, supposed to be the elder Geoffrey de Mandeville.

The Saxon title of reeve was continued during the Norman period and the shire-reeve or sheriff has continued to our own time.

The third division would consist of the collections of the so-called Pseudo-leges Canuti, the laws of Edward the Confessor, of Henry I., and the great compilation of the Quadripartitus, then of a number of short notices and extracts like the fragments on the "wedding of a wife," on oaths, on ordeals, on the king's peace, on rural customs (Rectitudines singularum personarum), the treatises on the reeve (gerefa) and on the judge (dema), formulae of oaths, notions as to wergeld, &c. A fourth group might be made of the charters, n as they are based on Old English private and public law and supply us with most important materials in regard to it.

Local tradition asserts that Frome was a medieval borough, and the reeve of Frome is, occasionally mentioned in documents after the reign of Edward I., but there is no direct evidence that Frome was a borough and no trace of any charter granted to it.

The son graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1772, and two years later began the study of law in the celebrated law school conducted by his brother-in-law, Tappan Reeve, at Litchfield, Connecticut.

In 1784 Reeve established here the Litchfield Law School, the first institution of its kind in America.

He accepted the offer and set to work to prepare his English MS. for the translators, Richard Peers and Richard Reeve, both appointed by Dr Fell, dean of Christ Church, who undertook the expense of printing.

In the collections there are few examples of the simple fabliau, the best being the Thrie Priestis of Peblis and The Dumb Wyf, or of the social variety of the same as shown in Rauf Coil3ear and John the Reeve.

Another service, the performance of which established a presumption as to villenage, was compulsory service as a reeve.

As such, the beadle goes back to early Teutonic times; he was probably attached to the moot as its messenger or summoner, being under the direction of the reeve or constable of the leet.

English readers may be referred to a little book on Petrarch by Henry Reeve, and to vols.

He also appointed as the chief officer of the town a reeve who was to be chosen by the lord of the manor, the burgesses being " more eligible if only they would pay as much as others for the office."

Reeve died in 1658, but Muggleton survived till 1698.

The Cotmans included breaking the clod, Greta Bridge and also Trentham Church, one of the watercolors which Reeve ultimately retained.

The eight houses liable to find the reeve had to pay a heriot, fixed at 3 s.

The catalogs included lithographs of certain works on exhibition - some prepared by Reeve.

The Normans established the sheriff or shire reeve - their crown officer.

There was also a Reeve and Bailiffs, who organized the estate for the lord and collected rents, taxes and fines.

Reeve is anything but portentous, and even makes an occasional wisecrack at the expense of more self important environmental dystopias.

In some bristle-tails and may-flies, the two vasa deferentia open separately, but usually they lead into a sperm-reservoir, whence issues a median C From Miall and Denny, The Cockroach, Lovell Reeve & Co.

Phil Reeve gave a presentation summarizing the history of the site and the remediation undertaken thus far.

The British beauty starred opposite Christopher Reeve in the 1980 cult classic Somewhere in Time.

In addition, Seymour is actively involved with the American Red Cross, The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, and Camp Soaring Eagle.

Christopher Reeve stars as Superman, one of comics' most intriguing superheroes with an interesting past.

Although the series ended in 1980, it introduced the late actor Christopher Reeve as young heartthrob Ben Harper.

Clark Meets Dr. Virgil Swann - Christopher Reeve portrayed Dr. Swann in one of the series greatest mythology episodes.

Superman I-IV (1978-1987) featuring Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Annette O'Toole.

The film conceived as a 'sequel' to Christopher Reeve's Superman II details Clark's attempts to reintegrate after years away from Earth.

Each of these divisions had in early times its own reeve or gerefa.

The reeve of the borough is mentioned in 1313-1317.

The shire court for Lincolnshire was held at Lincoln every forty days, the lords of the manor attending with their stewards, or in their absence the reeve and four men of the vill.

In 1651 he began to have revelations, and to proclaim himself and his cousin John Reeve, whose journeyman he was, as the two witnesses mentioned in Rev. xi.