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Abbas

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Abbas [fr. 'stuarium, Lat.] (Anglo-Saxon) singly or in conjunction, the site of an abbey or land belonging to one. For instance, Cerne Abbas in Dorsetshire (from Crem, Anglo-Saxon, a cheese, indicating a place, where cheese-making was carried on) means the abbot's diary or cheese farm. Edmunds, Names of Places, p. 161. According to Cowel, Abbas 'stuarium is Humber in Yorkshire

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