Meaning

(law, historical) In the names of legal actions, pleas, writs, etc.: final, last; dernier..

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the assize of darrein presentment

a plea puis darrein continuance

darrein resort

The. xiii. Chap. Asſyſes of darreyn preſentement ſhalbe taken alway before our iuſtices of the benche / and there ſhalbe determyned.

Therefore Ultima resolutio est gladius, War is the darrein resort of every wise and good Prince; unto which his Majesty was necessitated, they being the first Aggressors, and that upon such clear and pregnant evidence, as no King ever undertook a more just War.

[A] Man ſhall have Aſſiſe of Darrein Preſentment, although he nor his Anceſtors do preſent to the laſt Avoidance: As if the Tenant for Life or for Years, or in Dower, or by the Courteſy, ſuffer a Uſurpation unto a Church, &c. and die, he in the Reverſion, who is Heir unto the Anceſtor who laſt preſented, ſhall have an Aſſiſe of Darrein Preſentment, if he be diſturbed.

Aſſiſes of Darrein Preſentment ſhall alway be taken before the justices of the bench, and there determined, Magn. Chart. 9 H. 3. c. 13. vol. I.

Aſſiſe de Darrein Preſentment. The form of the writ of Darrein Preſentment for a common perſon is ſuch: The king to the ſheriff, greeting: If A. ſhall make you ſecure, &c. then ſummon, &c. twelve free and lawful men of the neighbourhood of B. that they be before our juſtices, &c. ready to recognize by oath what patron in time of peace preſented the laſt parſon, who is dead, to the church of C. or the last vicar, who is dead, to the vicarage of N. which is vacant, as is ſaid, and the advowſon whereof, he the ſame A. ſays, belongs to himſelf: […]

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