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Praepositus

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Praepositus, an officer next in authority to the alderman of a hundred, called pr'positus regius; or a steward or bailiff of an estate, answering to the wicnere, Anc. Inst. Eng.

Also the person from whom descents are traced under the old canons.

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