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Definition of Stannary
1. a. Of or pertaining to tin mines, or tin works.
2. n. A tin mine; tin works.
Definition of Stannary
1. Adjective. of, or pertaining to tin mining, especially in Cornwall ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stannary
1. a tin-mining region [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stannary
Literary usage of Stannary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short Constitutional History of England by Henry St. Clair Feilden (1895)
"The stannary Courts (Stannum, tin) are courts of Special stannary . ... In 1607,
the judges held that no writ of error lay from the stannary Courts to any ..."
2. A Short Constitutional History of England by Henry St. Clair Feilden (1895)
"In 1607, the judges held that no writ of error lay from the stannary Courts to
any Court at Westminster, though an Appeal lay from the Under Warden to the ..."
3. Pollock's Practice of the County Courts: With the Decisions of the Superior by Charles Edward Pollock, Henry Nicol (1870)
"stannary COURT AMENDMENT, 1855. 18 & 19 VICT. CAP. 32. An Act to amend and extend
the Jurisdiction of the stannary Court. ..."
4. The Law of Mines, Quarries, and Minerals by Robert Forster MacSwinney (1907)
"THE stannary jurisdiction is peculiar to the counties of Cornwall and Devon ;1
... The jurisdiction of the merly the jurisdiction was principally stannary ..."
5. A History of English Law by William Searle Holdsworth, John Burke (1903)
"... conferred on the court of King's Bench.6 The separate judicial organisation
of Wales came to an end, as we have seen, in 1830.° The stannary Courts. ..."
6. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1837)
"The miners claim to be free from all jurisdiction but that of the stannary Courts,
except in cases affecting land, life, or limb. The Vice-Warden's Court is ..."
7. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Offenders against the stannary laws were confined before trial in a dungeon so
loathsome and dreary that it gave rise to the proverb referred to. ..."
8. Tin Deposits of the World, with a Chapter on Tin Smelting by Sydney Fawns (1907)
"Next in productiveness to Irvinebank come stannary Hills, where the stannary
Hills Mines and Tramway Company has, under the direction of a new manager, ..."
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