Legal Definition and Related Resources of Clausum
Meaning of Clausum
Close; closed. A writ was either clausum (close) or apertum (open). Grants were said to be by literae patentae (open grant) or literae clausae (close grant). 2 Bl. Comm. 346. A close; an inclosure.
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Clausum in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims
Latin. A close; an inclosure. See close below.
Note: This legal definition of Clausum in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.
Concept of “Clausum”
Traditional meaning of clausum in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) 1. Clause. 2. A close. Clausum fregit: he broke the close; see 3rd Book (“Of Private Wrongs”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 209; TRESPASS.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Clausum”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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