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ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 104
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE IMAGE WAS CHECKED.
The e-rara page image was directly inspected. It verifies a contextual 1704 use of Legal meaning related to law; it is not a LEGAL headword, is not claimed as the earliest occurrence, and does not prove the Latin lex family or any disputed deeper reconstruction.
Present-Day English1704established
legal
John Harris’s FEE-FARM entry uses Legal to mark the specifically legal sense of the term.
“FEE-FARM, in a Legal Sense signifies Land held of another in Fee”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Printed book
- YEAR
- 1704
- LOCATOR
- Image [333], left column, FEE-FARM entry; e-rara content image 2867397
- REPOSITORY
- ETH-Bibliothek Zürich
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Rar 98 Ex.A GF, content image 2867397
- FACSIMILE
- Linked below
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- Yes
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERlegal ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 60 ↗
NAMED SOURCELexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences ↗OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
INSPECTED FACSIMILEOPEN OBJECT ↗
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REPEATABLE VISUAL REVIEW
THE INSPECTION LEDGER
OBSERVED FORMLegal
“FEE-FARM, in a Legal Sense signifies Land held of another in Fee”
- INSPECTION DATE
- 2026-08-26
- METHOD
- visual facsimile
- INSPECTOR ROLE
- SET-U editorial review
- EXACT LOCATOR
- Image [333], left column, FEE-FARM entry; e-rara content image 2867397
- CLAIM LIMIT
- Verifies a contextual use of Legal meaning related to law in 1704. It does not establish a LEGAL headword, the earliest occurrence, the Latin lex family, or any disputed deeper reconstruction.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Lexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences
- AUTHOR
- John Harris
- YEAR
- 1704
- PUBLISHER
- Printed for Dan. Brown et al.
- SOURCE TYPE
- digitized primary source
- CITATION KEY
- erara-harris-lexicon-1704