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writ
were also in constant use for financial and political purposes of government. While the writ no longer governs civil pleading and has lost many of its applications, the extraordinary writs esp. of habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, and
wrong
wrong 1 : a violation of the rights of another ;esp : tort 2 : something (as conduct, practices, or qualities) contrary to justice, goodness, equity, or law [the difference between right and ] vt :...
Birthright
which a person is entitled by birth such as an estate descendible by law to an heir or civil liberty under a free constitution esp the rights or inheritance of the first born
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Bluntly
In a blunt manner coarsely plainly abruptly without delicacy or the usual forms of civility
Bonitary
Beneficial as opposed to statutory or civil as bonitary dominion of land
Calendar
An orderly arrangement of the division of time adapted to the purposes of civil life as years months weeks and days also a register of the year with its divisions an almanac
Caliph
Successor or vicar the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and
Carpetbagger
Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War 1865
Centumvir
One of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try civil suits Under the empire the court was increased to 180 and met usually in four sections
Chih fu
An official administering a prefecture of China a prefect supervising the civil business of the hsiens or districts comprised in his fu which see
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