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Conquest

Conquest [fr. Conquerir, Fr., to acquire; conquiro, Lat., to seek for],

beyond Europe. But by her own colonization, and by the conquests of the settlements of other nations, she was now acquired

obtaining in this country at the time of the Norman Conquest. Out of feudalism arose the maxim, that all lands in

by whom trials for land, etc., were determined before the conquest.

Salute, a coin made by Henry V., after his conquest in France, where on the arms of England and France

Rhandir, a part in the division of Wales before the Conquest; every township comprehended four gavels, and every gavel had four

a preliminary stage to the shire-moot at all.....But after the conquest the hundred assembly, now called a court as all the

Post conquestum (after the Conquest).

represent presumably a section which had occupied the territory by conquest at an earlier stage and when later the rulers of

language, having remained the same since the date of the Conquest, at which it was introduced into England, is very different