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MERTON, STATUTE Definition & Legal Meaning

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OF. An old English statute, relating to dower, legitimacy, wardships, procedure, inclosure of common, and usury. It was passed in 1235, (20 Hen. III.,) and was named from Morton, iu Surrey. where parliament sat that year. See Barring. St 41, 46.

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