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code
Code] [Code of Massachusetts Regulations] [building ] see also Important Laws in the back matter compare case law, digest, statute b : one that serves as a model for legislation but is not itself a law [Model
Precedent
of this country should, if possible, be uniform'; approved by Lord Shaw, ib., 1910 AC 224. Consult Mews's Digest, tit. 'Decided Cases,' and Chitty on Contracts. The term 'precedents' is also used to designate the collections of
Repeal
West Ham v. Fourth City Mutual Building Society, (1892) 1 QB 654, and other cases cited in Mew's Digest, vol. 19, p. 842, tit. 'Statute.' A repeal may be brought about by repugnant legislation, without even any
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indigestibleness
the property of being difficult to digest
Preamble
11 Cl&F 143; Winn v. Mossman, (1869) LR 4 Ex 299; Maxwell on Statutes; Hardcastle on Statutes; Mew's Digest, tit. 'Statute'; the effect of the cases being that as a general rule the preamble is to be
Decretals
the canon law, forming the second part, so called as containing the decrees of sundry popes; or a digest of the canons of all the councils that pertained to one matter under one head.
Paratitla
Paratitla, an abbreviated explanation of some titles or books of the Code or Digest, Civ. Law. See PANDECT'.
Musang
A small animal of Java Paradoxirus fasciatus allied to the civets It swallows but does not digest large quantities of ripe coffee berries thus serving to disseminate the coffee plant hence it is called also
Peptonize
To convert into peptone to digest or dissolve by means of a proteolytic ferment as peptonized food
Recompilement
The act of recompiling new compilation or digest as a recompilement of the laws
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