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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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