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stakement Hist.|ˈsteɪkmənt|
[f. stake v.1 + -ment.]
The entitlement of tenants whose rents are in arrears to have their eviction delayed.
1904M. Bateson Borough Customs I. ii. 297 The ‘stakement’ appears to be the equivalent of the Germanic ‘wiffatio’. 1927J. S. Furley Ancient Usages City of Winchester 22 The Usages closes with an account of ‘stakement’. When a tenant was in arrears with his rent the landlord could take no steps till after year and day. Ibid., Stakement is symbolic... At Exeter the custom was to carry away a stone..but the stake was used at Reading, at Fordwich, and the other Cinque Ports. 1927Contemp. Rev. Aug. 261 The procedure of ‘Stakement’, a court process that delayed adverse possession, is very early and full of interest. 1935K. M. E. Murray Constitutional Hist. Cinque Ports ii. 16 Such is the practice of ‘stakement’ for rent arrears. |