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Recorder of London

next after the commencement of that Act, which vacancy happened in 1892 by the death of Sir Thomas Chambers, no Recorder may exercise any judicial functions unless he be appointed by the sovereign to exercise such functions.

Encyclop'dia

collective work containing a series of Articles by many contributors, either on all subjects, as the Encyclop'dia Britannica, Chambers's Encyclop'dia, or on all parts of a special subject, as the Encyclop'dia of the Laws of England or

Revolver

One who or that which revolves specifically a firearm commonly a pistol with several chambers or barrels so arranged as to revolve on an axis and be discharged in succession by the same

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Family

it related to him by blood or marriage... a group of persons of common ancestry (p. 821). In Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary (New Edition 1972), the word 'family' has been defined thus: The household, or all those

Live stock

SC 666: 1994 Supp (1) SCC 429. Livestock means domestic animal especially horses, cattle, sheep and pigs (see Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, p. 737). Historically these animals are associated with agriculture as they either help in carrying

Green

Green, the word is defined in Chambers, Dictionary at page 463 as adjective of the colour usually in leaves between blue and yellow in spectrum

Pronounce

Pronounce, means to proclaim, to utter formally, to utter rhetorically, to declare, to utter, to articulate, Chambers 20th Century Dictionary, New Edition, p. 1030. The term 'pronounce' means to proclaim, to utter formally, to utter

Privilege

are privileged from arrest, eundo, morando et redeundo, going to coming from, and abiding in court--this includes judge's chambers; so clergymen as to divine service. See also the following titles and DISTRESS; LIBEL. The word privilege is

Novale

converted into tillage, and which had not been tilled before within the memory of man; also fallow land, Chambers.

Newspaper

of Libel Amendment Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 64), requires the consent of a judge at chambers to the prosecution of a newspaper for libel, allows the defence of justification to be gone into by

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