Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    Articles.

  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    Lat. Articles; items or heads. A term applied to some old English statutes, and occasionally to treatises.
    —Articuli cleri. Articles of the clergy, (q. v.)
    —Articuli de moneta. Articles concerning money, or the currency. The title of a statute passed in the twentieth year of Edward I. 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 228; Crabb, Eng. Law, (Amer. Ed.) 167.
    —Articuli Magnæ Chart. The preliminary articles, forty-nine in number, upon which the Magna Ghttrta was founded
    —Articuli super chartas. Articles upon the charters. The title of a statute passed in the twenty-eighth year of Edward I. st. 3, confirming or enlarging many particulars in Magna Charta, and the Charta de Foresta, and appointing a method for enforcing the observance of them, and for the punishment of offenders. 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 103, 233.