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Melius [or Ssatius] est petere fontes quam sectari rivulos

Melius [or Ssatius] est petere fontes quam sectari rivulos.-(It is better to go to the fountainhead than to follow streamlets.) See

Record, a petition made in Court that the judges, for better proof's sake, will hear or look upon any record.

or county borough councils, and otherwise aims at securing the better training of midwives and the regulation of their practice. For

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Tory, originally a nickname for the wild Irish in Ulster. An Act of the Irish Parliament for 'better suppressing tories,...

action, the gist of it must be who has the better title to the possession, and A. must necessarily recover. Thus

the parties; but where the ends of justices will be better answered by this course, it is authoritatively recommended by the

or 'to do something' which the law requires for the better prosecution or defence of the cause, Haroodhone v. Usha Charan,

of Henry VIII. bys. 7, allows a suffragan, 'for the better maintenance of his dignity,' to have two benefices with cure.

in respect of their lands, to perform some of the better sort of certain villein services, which were commuted into money

kinds have long been obsolete in English law, and the better opinion is that torture in the primary sense is wholly

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