"Vetera Statuta" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL

In English law. A statute, otherwise called “Statutum de Mercatorioum” made at a parliament held at the castle of Acton …

Also called “Vet-era Statuta.” English statutes from the time of Richard I. to Edward III. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 227

In English law. A law for the heir to punish waste in the life of the ancestor. “Though it be …

Concerning the property of religious persons carried away. The title of the statute 35 Edward I. passed to check the …

The name of a statute passed in the reign of Edward I. which enacted severe and arbitrary penalties against the …

The great statute roll. The first of the Eng-lish statute roils, beginnlug with Magna Charta, and ending wlth Edward III. …

• New statutes. An appellation sometimes given to the statutes whicb have been passed since the beginning of the reign …

A clause at the beginning of a constitution or statute explanatory of the reasons for its enactment and the ob-jects …

In English law. The name of an offense against the king and hls government, though not subject to capital punishment. …

A statute, so called, of justices assigned by Edward I. and his coun-cll, to go a circuit through all England, …

A stat-ute passed in the thirteenth year of the reign of Edward I., by which the old Saxon law of …

An Important English statute passed at the city of York, in the twelfth year of Edward II., contaln-lng provisions on …