Magna Carta Vocabulary

1.Justiciaries- a high ranking legal officer
2.abbots- the superior of a monastery
3.bailiffs- an official who assists a British sheriff and has the writes to execute writs and arrests
4.rectifying- to set correct
5.ratification- The declaration by which a nation formally accepts, with or without reservation
6.quarrel- an argument
7.wardship- the relationship and conditions between a guardian and his ward(child)
8.indemnified- to compensate for loss or damage
9.scutage- the name for tax or contribution used to raise the king's armies
10.tenants- A person who rented property from a landlord
11.levied- a fine
12.amerced- a financial penalty in English law
13.fief- an estate of land
14.chattels- personal belongings
15.intestate- not having made a will before one dies
16.selvedge- an edge produced on woven fabric so it wouldn't unravel
17.therein- in that place, document, or respect
18.retention- the continued possession, use, or control of something
19.perchance- by some chance
20.desist- to keep away from; cease
21.transgression- an act that goes beyond the law; an offense
22.pertains- belong to something as a part



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