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Country seat
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Mastaba
In Mohammedan countries a fixed seat common in dwellings and in public places
Banco
shifting of a river's course especially land that has become cut off in such a manner from the country it originally belonged to, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 139. Banco [Ital.]. see BANC. A seat or
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Policy
the legislature in its measures. See PUBLIC POLICY. In Scotland, the park or demesne land lying around a country seat or gentleman's house (Oxf. Dict.).
Sudder
best; the fore-Court of a house; the chief seat of Government, contradistinguished from mofussil, or interior of the country; the presidency, Indian.
Roman Catholics
Eliz. c. 2, punishing with the penalties of a pr'munire (see that title) any person bringing into this country any Agnus Dei, cross, picture, etc., from Rome; an Act of James, 3 Jac. 1, c. 5, penalizing … worship with unlocked doors, and that of 1829 (10 Geo. 4, c. 7), for enfranchisement and qualification for seat in Parliament, being the main factors in the removal, and the Roman Catholic Charities Act, 1832 (2 &
Civil Law
into the composition of the Common Law. Under the influence of the foreign ecclesiastics, who, pouring into this country after the Conquest, long monopolized the administration of the law, great encouragement was given to the adoption of … of the Corpus Juris Civilis. The greatest part of these Novels was composed in Greek, owing to the seat of the empire being then at Constantinople, where few or none spoke Latin in perfection; notwithstanding which some
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