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Bills of mortality

the bills of mortality included the 97 parishes within the walls, 16 parishes without the walls, and six contiguous out-parishes in Middlesex and Surrey. In 1626, the city of Westminster was included in the bills; in 1636,

Annexation

from the parish church to which they belong, to the church of another parish to which they are contiguous. The permanent occupation by a sovereign state of the territory formerly belonging to another, and see RES NULLIUS.

Holorhinal

Having the nasal bones contiguous

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Access

land has a right of access to and from water whether tidal or non-tidal which is opposite and contiguous to his frontage. And see Marshall v. Blackpool Corporation, (1924) 103 LJ KB 566. For access to light

Abbuttals, or Abuttals

sides of the land are properly said to be adjoining to, and the ends abutting on, the land contiguous, Blount's Law Dict. See BOUNDARIES. In building contracts, the meaning prima facie is 'in physical contact with.' See

Levity

than something else of equal bulk relative lightness especially as shown by rising through or floating upon a contiguous substance buoyancy opposed to gravity

Insulated

Standing by itself not being contiguous to other bodies separated unconnected isolated as an insulated house or column

Immediately

an immediate manner without intervention of any other person or thing proximately directly opposed to mediately as immediately contiguous

Conterminous

Having the same bounds or limits bordering upon contiguous

Conferruminate

Closely united by the coalescence or sticking together of contiguous faces as in the case of the cotyledons of the live oak acorn

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