Two of Pecunia's
attendants
in _The Staple of News_ are
_Statute_ and _Band_ (i.
_Statute_ and _Band_ (i.
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=2. 8. 102 your bond Of Sixe; and Statute of eight
hundred! = I. e. , of six, and eight hundred pounds. 'Statutes
merchant, statutes staple, and recognizances in the nature of
a statute staple were acknowledgements of debt made in writing
before officers appointed for that purpose, and enrolled of
record. They bound the lands of the debtor; and execution
was awarded upon them upon default in payment without the
ordinary process of an action. These securities were originally
introduced for the encouragement of trade, by providing a sure
and speedy remedy for the recovery of debts between merchants,
and afterwards became common assurances, but have now become
obsolete. '--S. M. Leake, _Law of Contracts_, p. 95.
Two of Pecunia's attendants in _The Staple of News_ are
_Statute_ and _Band_ (i. e. Bond, see _U. _ 34).
The two words are often mentioned together. In Dekker's
_Bankrouts Banquet_ (_Non-dram. Wks. _ 3. 371)
statutes are served up to the bankrupts.
Trains is evidently trying to impress Fitzdottrel with the
importance of Merecraft's transactions.
ACT III.
=3. 1. 8 Innes of Court. = 'The four Inns of Court, Gray's
Inn, Lincoln's Inn, the Inner, and the Middle Temple, have alone
the right of admitting persons to practise as barristers, and
that rank can only be attained by keeping the requisite number
of terms as a student at one of those Inns. '--Wh-C.
=2. 8. 102 your bond Of Sixe; and Statute of eight
hundred! = I. e. , of six, and eight hundred pounds. 'Statutes
merchant, statutes staple, and recognizances in the nature of
a statute staple were acknowledgements of debt made in writing
before officers appointed for that purpose, and enrolled of
record. They bound the lands of the debtor; and execution
was awarded upon them upon default in payment without the
ordinary process of an action. These securities were originally
introduced for the encouragement of trade, by providing a sure
and speedy remedy for the recovery of debts between merchants,
and afterwards became common assurances, but have now become
obsolete. '--S. M. Leake, _Law of Contracts_, p. 95.
Two of Pecunia's attendants in _The Staple of News_ are
_Statute_ and _Band_ (i. e. Bond, see _U. _ 34).
The two words are often mentioned together. In Dekker's
_Bankrouts Banquet_ (_Non-dram. Wks. _ 3. 371)
statutes are served up to the bankrupts.
Trains is evidently trying to impress Fitzdottrel with the
importance of Merecraft's transactions.
ACT III.
=3. 1. 8 Innes of Court. = 'The four Inns of Court, Gray's
Inn, Lincoln's Inn, the Inner, and the Middle Temple, have alone
the right of admitting persons to practise as barristers, and
that rank can only be attained by keeping the requisite number
of terms as a student at one of those Inns. '--Wh-C.
