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Definition of Demains
1. demain [n] - See also: demain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demains
Literary usage of Demains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A View of Northumberland: With an Excursion to the Abbey of Mailross in Scotland by W. (William) Hutchinson, Thomas Randal (1778)
"There is another parcell of the faid demains called Potter Field, ... containeth in
the whole by efti- mation acres: the north fields of the demains lyeth ..."
2. The Judicial Dictionary of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted by Frederick Stroud (1890)
"Copyhold lauds have been accounted demains, because they that are the tenants
thereof are judged in law to have no other estate but at the will of the lord ..."
3. Rules for the Interpretation of Deeds. With a Glossary by Howard Warburton Elphinstone, Robert Frederick Norton, James William Clark (1889)
"Copyhold lands have been accounted demains, because they [* 571 ] that are the
tenants thereof are judged in law to *have no other estate but at the will of ..."
4. Shropshire Parish Registers by Shropshire Parish Register Society, William Phillimore Watts Phillimore (1906)
"Craft for demains Land, wch. ... Land for 3 buts of demains Land & one litle
medow called ye Lady Meadow, booth together amounting to ye equal value of ye ..."
5. Old Panama and Castilla Del Oro: A Narrative History of the Discovery ...by Charles Loftus Grant Anderson by Charles Loftus Grant Anderson (1911)
"... in his Majesty's Sovereign demains in America, and particularly the Province
of Darien. ... in the very Heart of his demains. ..."
6. The History of France from the Earliest Times to the Outbreak of the Revolution by Guizot (François) (1889)
"... Farming of one-third of the demains and alienated rights. ... Domains in ditto
Salt-tax and demains of Metz, Toul and Verdun Farming of the King's ..."
7. The Roman Antiquities of Dionysius Halicarnassensis by Dionysius, Polybius (1758)
"... of particular demains, ... had enjoyed them: They were, no longer, public
lands, but the demains of the ..."
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