English

Noun

præmises

1. plural of præmise
   • 1622–1675, a scrap of a work reprinted in 1908 by Charles McLean Andrews in British Committees, Commissions, and Councils of Trade and Plantations, 1622–1675 (Johns Hopkins Press), page 123:

     Lastly you are to follow such other Instructions concerning the Præmises, as shall be sent to you from time to time by us under our Signe Manuall.

   • 1663, Newhavens case stated, section 21, subsection 2, reprinted in 1858 in the Records of the Colony or Jurisdiction of New Haven, from May, 1653, to the Union, page 529:

     Toward the king, that yow hono^r him by lookeing at vs as a distinct colonie w^thin ourselves, as yow see by the præmises his maj^ty doth, & by restorin[g] vs to our former intire state, & o^r members to vs in obedience to his maj^ty who hath comanded vs, as a distinct colonie, to serue him in weighty affaires, & wherein if yow hinder vs, (as yow will if yow still w^thhould our members from vs, as much as in yow lieth,) yow will incurr his maj^ties just & high displeasure, who hath not giuen yow in yo^r pattent the least appearance of a just ground for yo^r layeing any claime to vs.

   • 1859, Frederic William Russell, Kett’s rebellion in Norfolk, appendix, page 239:

     […] Which manors, messuages, lands, tenements, and præmises, with their appurtenances, now reach the clear annual value of forty marks […]

   • 2006, Constance Polin and Raymond Polin, Foundations of American Political Thought: Readings And Commentary (Peter Lang; ISBN 0820479306, 9780820479309), page 89:

     This they say tends to Brownism, and abhorred anarchy, and then say they upon such præmises, it must needs follow that every member of the body must be an officer; and then every one must preach and dispence […]