CHALKING THE DOOR

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CHALKING THE DOOR , a Scottish custom of landlord and

tenant

TENANT (from Lat. tenere, to hold)

law. In former days the law was that " a

burgh

BURGH [BOURKE,
BURKE
]
HUBERT
- HUBERT (HUCBERTUS, HUGBERTUS), ST (d. 727)
_DE_d_1243_.html">BURGH,
HUBERT
- HUBERT (HUCBERTUS, HUGBERTUS), ST (d. 727)
DE (d. 1243)

officer, in presence of witnesses, chalks the most patent

door

DOOR (corresponding to the Gr. Bbpa,. Lat. fores or valvae; the
English
- ENGLISH
word, with other forms common in allied languages, comes from the same Indo-European
stem
- STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")
as the Gr. Obpa and Lat. fares)

forty

FORTY

days before Whit Sunday, having made out an execution of 'chalking,' in which his name must be inserted, and which must be sub-scribed by himself and two witnesses." This ceremony now proceeds simply on the verbal order of the proprietor. The execution of chalking is a warrant under which decree of removal will be pronounced by the

burgh

court

COURT
COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the
influence
- INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)
of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

, in virtue of which the

tenant

TENANT (from Lat. tenere, to hold)

may be ejected on the expiration of a charge of six days.

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