mu·ni·ment

(myo͞o′nə-mənt)

1. often muniments Law Documentary evidence by which one can defend a title to property or a claim to rights.

2. Archaic A means of defense or protection.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin mūnīmentum, from Latin, defense, protection, from mūnīre, to fortify; see munition.]

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muniments

(ˈmjuːnɪmənts)

pl n

1. (Law) law the title deeds and other documentary evidence relating to the title to land

2. archaic furnishings or supplies

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

muniments - deeds and other documentary evidence of title to land

title deed - a legal document proving a person's right to property

law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"

Translations

muniments

[ˈmjuːnɪmənts]

A. NPL → documentos mpl (probatorios)

B. CPD muniments room N → archivos mpl

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muniments

pl (Jur, form) → Urkunde f

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References in classic literature

It is sufficient to know that the name to which I do myself the honour to refer, will ever be treasured among the muniments of our house (I allude to the archives connected with our former lodgers, preserved by Mrs.

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Greg describes them in his edition of the Diary, which was supplemented by Greg's analysis of documents in the Alleyn-Henslowe Muniments. (12) These additional documents confirm Langworth's position within the Henslowe-Alleyn circle and reveal a relationship between Alleyn and Arthur Langworth's son John.

A Possible Extension of Henslowe's and Alleyn's Sussex Network?

(110) What let the Oldambt farmers down was a lack of actual documentation to prove their autonomy from urban authority--and of course these original manuscripts had been transferred to the city muniments for storage before the floods.

Danger and displacement in the Dollard: The 1509 flooding of the Dollard sea (Groningen) and its impact on long-term inequality in the distribution of property

(3) The Hanson clan climbed nowhere near as far, but his book nevertheless survived as part of the Spencer/Stanhope family muniments.

Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge, and Queen Elizabeth: A Yorkshire Yeoman's Household Book

(8) In the corpus of the Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots I found three further instances in legal texts where sail is joined onto happin dating from the years 1459 (Duntreath Muniments), 1490 (Lennox Charters and Letters) and 1498 (Morton Papers).

Gif your e grace will command me with ony service ye sail fynd me obedient: on the use of will and shall in Older Scots if-clauses

The octagonal space was used as a kitchen until the mid-1940s and then became the cathedral's muniments and record office.

Abandoned church's new life at Beamish

The antient Evidences and Muniments of the Church I found covered with dirt and dust; these to the amount of some Bushells, I cleaned, sorted and endorsed, and having tied them up in little bundels, they are now deposited in the old Exchequer, being a very convenient muniment room.

The Exeter drawings of John Carter: a rare book in a private collection in New Zealand

In particular, Alexander shared (or at least indulged) his uncles antiquarian enthusiasms: Harbins notes of a visit he made to Combe Florey in 1734 to examine the muniments of the parish church are preserved in the Somerset county archives.

George Harbin and the Malet family manuscript of Rochester

It was in the flowing substance of things limned by statistical reports on finance, commerce, capital, industry, railways, and agriculture, by provisions of constitutional law, and by the pages of statute books--prosaic muniments which show that the so-called civil war was in reality a Second American Revolution and in a strict sense, the First.

Rethinking the second American revolution: legal tender and national banking in the Civil War era

"The Muniments of Edmund de Mortimer, Third Earl of March, Concerning His Liberty of Trim." Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 60C7 (May 1932): 312-55.

French connections in late medieval Ireland: the case of Geoffrey de Geneville (c. 1226-1314)

Of particular interest to social and economic historians will be Ellen O'Flaherty's essay on Trinity College Dublin in 1712 (as seen through the prism of the college muniments), in which she profiles the student body and considers the evidence for building work and the general finances of the college.

The Old Library, Trinity College Dublin