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Alien

a British Consulate shall cease to be a British subject unless within one year after he attains the age of twenty-one (or some other age authorized by regulation) he asserts his British nationality by a declaration of

Blind Persons Act, 1920 (English)

Blind Persons Act, 1920 (English). Applies the Old Age Pensions Acts to persons who are so blind as to be unable to perform any work for which

Borough English

within such borough. It was based on the assumption that the youngest son, on account of his tender age, was not so capable as the rest of his brethren to keep himself. Among the pastoral tribes, the

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bona fide occupational qualification

bona fide occupational qualification : a requirement (as relating to sex, religion, national origin, or age) for a particular job that does not violate the constitutional bans on discrimination see also Civil Rights Act

Feudal system

country, thereby displacing the Saxon laws of property, and which was the chief civil institution of the Middle Ages. The system as introduced here, however, differed in some very important respects from that which prevailed abroad. See

Mediaeligvalist

One who has a taste for or is versed in the history of the Middle Ages one in sympathy with the spirit or forms of the Middle Ages

Paleozoic

division of geological time during which life is known to have existed including the Silurian Devonian and Carboniferous ages and also to the life or rocks of those ages See Chart of Geology

Reformation

amendment of life manners or of anything vicious or corrupt as the reformation of manners reformation of the age reformation of abuses

Axiom

universally accepted with a given frame work of reasoning or thinking e.g. innocent until proven guilty is an age-old axiom of criminal law, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 132.

Secular

Coming or observed once in an age or a century

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