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Redact

To reduce to form as literary matter to digest and put in shape matter for publication to edit

Attorney-General

there on behalf of the Government. Consult Termes de la Ley; Norton-Kyshe's Attorney-General and Solicitor-General of England; Mew's Digest, tit. 'Crown Office (Law Officers).' The Prince of Wales appoints his own Attorney-General.

Barrister, or Barrastor

OF COURT; and consult Marchant on Barristers; Warren's Law Studies; Forsyth's Hortenisus; and Chitty on Contracts; also Mew's Digest, tit. 'Barrister.' It shall mean a barrister of England or Ireland, or a member of the Faculty of

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Bastard

notorious may be the origin of the person, until his status has been legally destroyed. See ACCESS; Mew's Digest, tit. 'Bastard.' Provision is made by the (English) Age of Marriage Act, 1929 (c. 36), s. 2, to

Bracton

c. viii. 86, note (a), for an analysis of the several divisions of the chapters and a complete digest of the contents of this venerable code. The rules of property are explained; the proceedings in actions, through

Certiorari

Court alone. For the very numerous cases in which the writ has been granted or refused, see Mews's Digest, tit. 'Crown Office (Certiorari)' and for a review of the authorities as to procedure on certiorari, see R.

Coke, Sir Edward

lawyers, one of whose great characteristics, however, has been not unjustly said by Sir James Stephen in his Digest of the Criminal Law, 3rd Edn. 1883, at p. 364, to be an 'utter incapacity for anything like

Criminal Law

Criminal Law. Consult Archbold's Criminal Pleading; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Criminal Law'; Stephen's Digest of the Criminal Law; Russell on Crimes; and see titles ARSON, ASSAULT, BURGLARY, EMBEZZLE-MENT, FALSE PRETENCES, LARCENY, MAN-SLAUGHTER,

Redaction

The act of redacting work produced by redacting a digest

Entertainment

pleasureable occupation of the sense, or that which furnishes it, as dancing, sports, or music. Likewise, in Reader's Digest Family Word Finder at p. 264, 'entertainment' has been defined thus: Entertainment amusement, diversion, distraction, recreation, fun, play,

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