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Double first
A degree of the first class both in classics and mathematics
Erethism
A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ
honours
A university degree with honors a term used in Great Britain
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Marriage
avoids the marriage. See Lord Durham's case, (1885) 10 PD 80, and 51 Geo. 3, c. 37. Prohibited Degrees.--Down to 1835, marriages within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity (see 32 Hen. 8, s. 38, printed
Negligence
perform in the particular circumstance of each case. A very convenient classification has been formulated corresponding to the degree of negligence entailing liability measured by the degree of care undertaken or required in each case, i.e., (1)
murder
are defenses to a charge of murder. Most state statutes and the U.S. Code divide murder into two degrees. Florida, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania currently have three degrees of murder. Some states do not assign degrees of murder.
Lineal consanguinity
and his son, grandson, great-grandson and so downwards in the direct descending line. (2) Every generation constitutes a degree, either ascending or descending. (3) A person's father is related to him in the first degree, and so
Serjeant
Dictionary, 7th Edn. (1) Serjeants-at-law, or of the coif (servientes ad legem), otherwise called serjeants counter, the highest degree in the Common Law, as doctors in the Civil Law; but, according to Spelman, a doctor of law
Distribution, Statute of
,then a moiety shall go to the widow, and a moiety to the next of kindred in equal degree, and their representatives; if no widow, the whole shall go to the children; if neither widow nor children,
University
Disqualification (Removal) Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 71), empowered universities to admit women to membership, degrees, and see infra. Parliamentary Franchise.-Oxford and Cambridge had the franchise for two members each from the earliest times;
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