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Porteous mob

was confined, and themselves hanged him in the Grassmarket. For an account of the inquiries made into the affair by the Crown Counsel, see Scott's Heart of Midlothian, Centen. ed., note D.

Prevention

Lat.], the right which a superior person or officer has to lay hold of, claim, or transact, an affair prior to an inferior one, to whom otherwise it more immediately belongs, Canon Law Term.

Verbal note

Verbal note, a memorandum or note, in diplomacy, not signed, sent when an affair has continued a long time without any reply, in order to avoid the appearance of an urgency which,

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