单词 | vicontiel |
释义 | † vicontieln.adj. Obsolete. A. n. plural. Certain sums regularly payable to the Crown by a sheriff and charged against him in the Exchequer accounts. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > local or municipal taxes or dues > [noun] > other local or municipal dues or taxes > payments due by sheriff vicontiel1548 1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI c. 4 §3 [To] be discharged of all suche Fermes and Sommes of money..excepte onlie of the Vicountielles of their Shires wherewithe they shalbe chardged. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Yyy3v/1 There be also certaine fermes called Vicountiels, which the Shyreeue for his time payeth a certaine rent for to the King, and maketh what profit he can of them. 1642 C. Vernon Considerations Excheqver 11 The..Sheriffe..to deliver a book written in parchment, declaring of whom and where he receiveth the vicondells, and other the Rents and Farmes written unto him in the Summons of the Pipe. 1738 Hist. View Court of Exchequer v. 89 This sum was an Item placed after his Vicontiels. 1819 Statutes of Realm IV. 43 (margin) Allowance to all Sheriffs for Vicountiels out of lands coming into the King's Hands.] B. adj. 1. Of or pertaining to a sheriff. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > [adjective] > sheriff vicountile1542 vicontiel1614 vice-countilea1640 shrieval1681 viscountial1751 α. β. a1628 J. Doddridge Hist. Wales, Cornewall & Chester (1630) 40 For all the ordinary Ministers and executioners of the processe of the Lawes of England, or which haue Vicountiell iurisdiction, are the Officers of particular Shires.1819 Statutes of Realm IV. 43 (margin) Sheriffs taking Tallies shall be chargeable for Vicountiel Farms, &c.] 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 253 Our officiarie Vice~comites or Shirifes, which haue diuers Actions Viscontiel, and inquirie of criminall causes. a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) iii. 152 The highest authority that he [the sheriff] hath is but vicontiel. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 191 Other Courts also were in the countrey, and were Vicontiel or Cours of Sheriffs and Lords of Hundreds and corporations. 1670 Act 22 Chas. II c. 6 §1 Guild Rents, Pensions, Vicontiel Rents, Assart-Rents [etc.]. 1798 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 850/1 Not far from the church of Bromham lies..the chantry-house, to which appertained certain annual vicontiel or fee farm rents. 1798 Rep. Comm. Ho. Comm. (1803) XIII. 107 The Rents whereof (called Viscontiel Rents) are in the Collection of the Sheriffs of the several Counties, Cities, and Towns in England. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. vii. 684 The second consisting of certain rents called viscontiel rents, or rents for which the sheriffs were accountable. 2. Of writs: (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [adjective] > type of writ vicontiel1607 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Yyy3v/1 Writs vicountiel are such writs as are triable in the countie or Shyreeues court. a1683 W. Scroggs Pract. Courts-leet (1714) 84 This Writ is a Vicountiel, and in the Nature of a Justicies in which the Sheriff shall hold Plea. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 238 This writ of admeasurement..is one of those writs, that are called vicontiel, being directed to the sheriff,..and not to be returned to any superior court, till finally executed by him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.adj.1548 |
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