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Cardinal

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Redbird

The cardinal bird

Carduelis

Cardulis tristis and the European goldfinch Carduelis carduelis siskins redpolls and linnets as well as the common northern cardinal Carduelis cardinalis also called the cardinal bird

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longbeard

a fat bellied stoneware drinking jug with a long neck decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine 17th century

Titles (Ecclesiastical)

public excitement, in consequence of the division of England into Roman Catholic dioceses by Pope Pius IX., under Cardinal Wiseman, as Archbishop of Westminster) was never enforced, and has been repealed by the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, 1871.

Specific performance

Specific performance. Equity, in obedience to the cardinal rule of natural justice that a person should perform his agreement enforces, pursuant to a regulated and judicial

Material

Reg. v. Legal Aid Appeal Committee Exp. McCormick (Q.B.D.), (2000) 1 WLR 1804 Material, means 'fundamental', vital, basic, cardinal, central, crucial, decisive, essential, pivotal, indispensable, elementary or primary, Burton's Legal Thesaurus (3rd Edn.), p. 349. Material, means

Discovery

bill. Sir James Wigram, V.C., in his work, entitled Points in the Law of Discovery, epitomized the two cardinal principles on this subject in the two following propositions: (1) It is the right, as a general rule,

Delegatus non potest delegare

he be expressly authorized so to do, See Huth v. Clarke, (1890) 25 QBD 391. It is a cardinal rule in the law of trusts that a trustee cannot delegate his office or discretions for the exercise

Ablegate

public business or embassy. Means a papal envoy on a special mission, such as carrying a newly appointed cardinal's insignia of office, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 5.

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