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Breviary

An abridgment a compend an epitome a brief account or summary

Uses

estate, before it can take effect in possession: but an abridgment of the particular estate, upon a certain condition, could be

Compendium

or general principles of a larger work or system an abridgment an epitome a compend a condensed summary

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Summary

Summary, an abridgment, brief compendium; summary application, one made to a court or

Guardian

is incapable of acting for his own interest (2 Bacon's Abridgment, 672). See GUARDIANSHIP. In relation to a child, means his

Fitzherbert

first book published by this learned author was his Grand Abridgment, printed in 1514 by Richard Pynson, of which in 1516

Conditional limitation

stranger, for as a remainder it was void, being an abridgment or defeasance of the estate first granted, and as a

Abstract

Abstract [fr. abstrahere, abstractus; fr. trahere, Lat., to draw], an abridgment or epitome, as the abstract of pleas required in some

Abridge

Abridge [fr. abreger, Fr., abbreviare, Lat.], to make shorter in words

Civil Law

two thousand other treatises, containing three millions of lines, were abridged into a hundred and fifty thousand; the work was completed

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