pax regis

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pax regis - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  PAX REGIS, Eng. law. The king's peace. In ancient times there were certain 
  limits which were known by this name. The pax regis, or the verge of the 
  court, as it was afterwards called, extended from the palace gate to the 
  distance of three miles, three furlongs, three acres, nine feet, nine palms 
  and nine barleycorns. Crabb's C. L. 41.