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The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible absence of or exemption from corruption...
Harlock
Probably a corruption either of charlock or hardock...
Ratification
Ratification, confirmation. 'A contract of agency may also be created by ratification. Where A. purports to act as agent for B., either having no authority at all or having no authority to do that particular act, the subsequent adoption by B. of A.'s act has the same legal consequences as if B. had originallyauthorised the act. But there can be no ratification unless A purported to act as agent, and to act for B.; and in such a case B alone can ratify. Nor can there be any binding ratification of any agreement which was originally void' (Odgers on the Common Law), or where the principal was not in existence at the time of the act, either in fact or in the contemplation of law as in the case of persons such as trustees in bankruptcy or personal repre-sentatives who acquire title by relation, Kelner v. Baxter, LR 2 CP 174; and see also NOTICE TO QUIT. Omnis ratihabitio retrotrahitur et mandato 'quiparatur (Co. Litt. 207 a). As to the ratification of contracts by infants, see the Infants ...
Corruptful
Tending to corrupt full of corruption...
Otter
A corruption of Annotto...
corrupt
corrupt : having an unlawful or evil motive ;esp : characterized by improper and usually unlawful conduct intended to secure a benefit for oneself or another (as by taking or giving bribes) cor·rupt·ly adj cor·rupt·ness n vt 1 : to change from good to bad in principles or moral values [ing a minor] 2 : to subject (a person) to corruption of blood cor·rup·ti·bil·i·ty [kə-rəp-tə-bi-lə-tē] n cor·rup·ti·ble [kə-rəp-tə-bəl] adj cor·rup·ti·bly adv cor·rup·tion [kə-rəp-shən] n ...
depraved
depraved : marked by moral corruption or perversion as shown by a capacity for extreme and wanton physical cruelty [the state of mind of the murderer] [the nature of the crime] ...
loot
loot 1 : to rob esp. during or following a catastrophe (as war, riot, or natural disaster) 2 : to rob esp. on a large scale and usually by violence or corruption vi : to engage in robbing esp. after a catastrophe loot·er n ...
Cacotechny
A corruption or corrupt state of art...
Cathay
China an old name for the Celestial Empire said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China Khitai the country of the Khitans...
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