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Beatific

Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment blissful...

Beatitude

Felicity of the highest kind consummate bliss...

Blessedness

The state of being blessed happiness felicity bliss heavenly joys the favor of God...

Bliss

Orig blithesomeness gladness now the highest degree of happiness blessedness exalted felicity heavenly joy...

Blissful

Full of characterized by or causing joy and felicity happy in the highest degree...

Endless

Without end having no end or conclusion perpetual interminable applied to length and to duration as an endless line endless time endless bliss endless praise endless clamor...

Felicity

The state of being happy blessedness blissfulness enjoyment of good...

Prelibation

A tasting beforehand or by anticipation a foretaste as a prelibation of heavenly bliss...

Apportionment, a division of a whole into parts (usually unequal) proportioned to the rights of more claimants than one. It is either (1) Apportionment in respect of time, or (2) Apportionment in respect of estate.Apportionment in respect of Time.--At Common Law there is no apportionment in respect of time. when a successor in interest succeeds just before a rent or other periodical payment falls due, he takes, at Common Law, the whole, and the executors of his predecessor take nothing (Clun's Case, 1Rep. 127). This was remedied by 11 Geo. 2, c. 19, s. 25, which apportioned rent between the representatives of a deceased tenant for life, and the person succeeding in remainder, and by 4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 22, passed to obviate doubts which had arisen upon the earlier Act.The (English) 'Apportionment Act, 1870' (33 & 34 Vict. c. 35) now provides (but without repealing the above Acts) that all rents, annuities, and dividends, and other periodical payments in the nature of income shall, like int...

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