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Quando mulier nobilis nupserit ignobili desinit esse nobilis nisi nobilitas nata fuit

nobilis nisi nobilitas nata fuit (4 Rep. 118), when a noble woman marries a man not noble, she ceases to be noble, unless her nobility was born with her.

Public interest

of public adminis-tration require the retirement of a government servant who with the passage of years has pre-maturely ceased to possess the standard of efficiency, competence and utility called for by the government service to which he

Kazy

Court of Delhi to administer justice according to their written law; under the British authorities his judicial functions ceased, and his duties were confined to the preparation and attestation of deeds, and the superintendence and legalisation of

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A and B lists

up order, who are primarily liable to contribute. List B is prepared to include the shareholders who are ceased to be but had been shareholders in preceding twelve months. Their liability to contribute is secondary

Joint-tenancy

them that die to the survivors or survivor, till it passes to a single hand, and the joint-tenancy ceases. Anciently, joint-tenancy was favoured because it did not induce fractions of estates, and returning to early principles the

Reflorescence

A blossoming anew of a plant after it has apparently ceased blossoming for the season

Cessure, or Cessor

Cessure, or Cessor, ceasing, giving over, departing from.

Cessavit

13 Edw. 1, c. 21), when a man who held lands by rent or other services neglected or ceased to perform his services for two years together, or where a religious house had lands given to it,

Cersor

Cersor, he who ceases or neglects so long to perform a duty that he thereby incurs the danger of the law, Old

Case, action on the

the term 'action on the case' only continues to exist as a convenient mode of expression, and has ceased to be a term of art. For different kinds of actions of trespass on the case, see Malicious

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