单词 | stakement |
释义 | stakementn. Historical. The entitlement of tenants whose rents are in arrears to have their eviction delayed. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [noun] > right as tenant > to have eviction delayed stakement1904 1904 M. Bateson Borough Customs I. ii. 297 The ‘stakement’ appears to be the equivalent of the Germanic ‘wiffatio’. 1927 J. S. Furley Anc. 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. 1927 J. S. Furley Anc. Usages City of Winchester 22 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. 1927 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 261 The procedure of ‘Stakement’, a court process that delayed adverse possession, is very early and full of interest. 1935 K. M. E. Murray Constit. Hist. Cinque Ports ii. 16 Such is the practice of ‘stakement’ for rent arrears. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1904 |
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