de mercatoribus

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de mercatoribus - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  DE MERCATORIBUS. This is the name of a statute passed in the 11 Edw. I.; it 
  is usually called the statute of Acton Burnell De Mercatoribus. It was 
  passed in consequence of the complaints of foreign merchants, who could not 
  recover the claims, because the lands of the debtors could not be sold for 
  their debts. It enacted that the chattels and devisable burgages of the 
  debtor might be sold for the payment of their debts. Cruise, Dig. t. 14, s. 
  6. 
  
  D.E NOVO. Anew. afresh. When a judgment upon an issue in part is reversed on 
  error, for some mistake made by the court, in the course of the trial, a 
  venire de novo is awarded in order that the case may again be submitted to 
  the jury.