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Commutator

A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current an attachment to certain electrical machines by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction...

Commutative

Relative to exchange interchangeable reciprocal

Commutative justice and distributive justice

Commutative justice and distributive justice, Aristotle's doctrine of justice of equality is called by him commutative justice which requires

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Commutative contract

Commutative contract, one in which each of the con-tracting parties gives and receives an equivalent.

commutative contract

commutative contract see contract

Commutation ticket

Matched in: Term Commutation ticket

Scutage

Shield money commutation of service for a sum of money See Escuage

Incommutable

Not commutable not capable of being exchanged with or substituted for another

Tithe Rent-Charge

Tithe Rent-Charge. A charge on land, substituted by commutation for that charge on the produce of the land for the benefit of the Church, which was called

Copyhold

its origin is undiscoverable, but it is said to be the ancient villeinage modified and changed by the commutation of base services into specified rents, either in money or money's worth. A copyhold estate is a parcel

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