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League confederacy esp the confederation of German states...
Bundes Versammlung
See Legislature Switzerland...
Custom of the country
Custom of the country, in agriculture, that usage governing the relations of agricultural landlords and tenants which is considered to be incorporated in every farming lease or agreement unless it ibe expressly excluded therefrom. The most important kinds of custom are those by which the tenant on quitting his holding has a right to be compensated for his expenditue on those acts of husbandry of which he cannot obtain thebenefit during the tenancy itself, as where the tenant goes out of Lady-Day, and si either paid in money for the seed and labour which he has expended upon the crop to be reaped in the autumn, or has a right to re-enter to till and gather his 'away-going crop.' See AWAY-GOING CROP.In many parts of England, the custom of the country entitles the tenant to be paid for artificial manures, and in some few, pre-eminently in Lincolnshire, for drainage and buildings; but customs are most variable and difficult to ascertain, and from a comparison of returns procured in 1848 by...
State trials
State trials, a work in thirty-three volumes octavo (from which 'selections' were brought out by Mr. J. Willis-Bund in 1880), containing all trials for offences against the State, and others partaking in some degree of that character, fro 1163 to 1820. Eight continuation volumes, for the period from 1820 o 1858 have been brought out under the auspices of a Government committee; the eighth and last volume contains the index, and appeared in 1898....
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