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Indigestion

Discomfort due to a lack of proper digestive action a failure of the normal changes which food should undergo in the alimentary canal dyspepsia incomplete or difficult digestion

Pancreas

The sweetbread a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all vertebrates It is usually elongated and light colored and its secretion called the pancreatic juice is discharged often together with the bile into the upper...

Institutions

Institutions. It was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and the writings...

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Duodenum

The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum See Illust of Digestive apparatus under Digestive

Bracton

Bracton, the author of the Latin treatise entitled De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angli'. He lived at the latter end of the reign of Henry the Third. Bracton's book, compared with that of Glanville, is a voluminous...

Extent

Extent, the peculiar remedy to recover debts of record due to the Crown; it differs from an ordinary writ of execution at the suit of a subject, because under it the body, lands, and goods of...

Entertainment

Entertainment, In Stroud's Judicial Dictionary (4th Edn., Vol. 2, p. 916) the word 'entertainment' has been defined thus: Entertainment ..... for a public or special occasion ...... is an entertainment in the sense of a gathering...

Food stuff

Food stuff, the term ' foodstuff' is ambiguous. In one sense it has a narrow meaning and is limited to articles which are eaten as food for purposes of nutrition and nourishment and so would exclude...

Decretals

Decretals, a volume of 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...

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, MURDER, RAPE, TREASON, and WOUNDING....

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