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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 justice and distributive justice
Commutative justice and distributive justice, Aristotle's doctrine of justice of equality is called by him commutative justice which requires
Commutative contract
Commutative contract, one in which each of the con-tracting parties gives and receives an equivalent.
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commutative contract
commutative contract see contract
Incommutable
Not commutable not capable of being exchanged with or substituted for another
Scutage
Shield money commutation of service for a sum of money See Escuage
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
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
Tenure
and this attendance was his rent or service for the land he held, but the service was usually commuted by payment in the form of escuage or scutage. Among the incidents of this tenure were reliefs or
Commutation
a penalty or punishment from a greater to a less; or giving one thing in satisfaction of another-as commuting tithes into a rent-charge, copyhold services into money payments, etc., annual payments into one lump payment, as under
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