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Dorture

Dorture [ contracted from dormiture], a dormitory of a convent; a place to sleep in.

Ecclesiastical Corporations

corporations sole-viz., bishops, certain deans, parsons, and vicars; and corporations aggregate-viz., deans and chapters, and formerly prior and convent, abbot and monks, and the like. For a statutory definition see (English) 14 & 15 Vict. c. 104,

Prior

Prior, chief of a convent, next in dignity to an abbot.

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Abbess

Abbess, is a female spiritual superior of a convent, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 3.

Obsolete

in the Stat. Westm. Sec., 13 Edw. 1, c. 34, by which elopement with a nun from her convent, although the nun consent, is punishable by three years' imprisonment and fine. For further instances, see the (English)

Gewineda

Gewineda, the ancient convention of the people to decide a cause, Leg. Ethel. c. 1.

Foreign law

Court of Justice may remit a case with queries to foreign courts of the countries with which a convention shall have been entered into for the purpose by the British Crown for ascertainment of the foreign law,

General Conference on Weights and Measures

General Conference on Weights and Measures, means the Conference General des Poids et Measures established under the Convention due Metre. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s. 2(h)]

Indiscriminate attack

combat the effects of which cannot be limited in accordance with an international protocol such as the Geneva Convention of 1949, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 777.

Goods

or Discrete Organic Chemicals including those Discrete Organic Chemicals containing elements of phosphorous, sulphur or fluorine. [Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000 (34 of 2000), s. 2(e)] Telephone connection and all other accessories which give access to the

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Convent - Law Dictionary Search Results

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Dorture

Dorture [ contracted from dormiture], a dormitory of a convent; a place to sleep in.

Ecclesiastical Corporations

corporations sole-viz., bishops, certain deans, parsons, and vicars; and corporations aggregate-viz., deans and chapters, and formerly prior and convent, abbot and monks, and the like. For a statutory definition see (English) 14 & 15 Vict. c. 104,

Prior

Prior, chief of a convent, next in dignity to an abbot.

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Abbess

Abbess, is a female spiritual superior of a convent, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 3.

Obsolete

in the Stat. Westm. Sec., 13 Edw. 1, c. 34, by which elopement with a nun from her convent, although the nun consent, is punishable by three years' imprisonment and fine. For further instances, see the (English)

Gewineda

Gewineda, the ancient convention of the people to decide a cause, Leg. Ethel. c. 1.

Foreign law

Court of Justice may remit a case with queries to foreign courts of the countries with which a convention shall have been entered into for the purpose by the British Crown for ascertainment of the foreign law,

General Conference on Weights and Measures

General Conference on Weights and Measures, means the Conference General des Poids et Measures established under the Convention due Metre. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s. 2(h)]

Indiscriminate attack

combat the effects of which cannot be limited in accordance with an international protocol such as the Geneva Convention of 1949, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 777.

Goods

or Discrete Organic Chemicals including those Discrete Organic Chemicals containing elements of phosphorous, sulphur or fluorine. [Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000 (34 of 2000), s. 2(e)] Telephone connection and all other accessories which give access to the

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