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Proteose

One of a class of soluble products formed in the digestion of proteids with gastric and pancreatic juice and also by the hydrolytic action of boiling dilute acids on proteids Proteoses are divided into the two...

Extravagantes

Extravagantes, those decretal epistles which were published after the Clementines. They were so called because first they were not digested or arranged with the other papal constitutions, but seemed to be, as it were, detached from...

Repeal

Repeal, a revocation or abrogation. Repeal of one act of Parliament by another is either express or implied, the rule being that a later Act repeals a former one if contradictory thereto, Leges posteriores priores contrarias...

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Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum (that you have the body to answer). This, the most celebrated prerogative writ in the English law, is a remedy for a person deprived of his liberty. It is addressed to him...

Oleron

Oleron, an island lying in the Bay of Acquitain, at the mouth of the river Charente, formerly in the possession of England. The inhabitants of Oleron have been able mariners for seven or eight hundred years...

Unlawful assembly

Unlawful assembly, an assembly of five or more persons is designated an 'unlawful assembly', if the common object of the persons composing that assembly is: First.-To overawe by criminal force, or show of criminal force, the...

Statham

Statham. The learning of the law was thrown into a more methodical form than it had ever yet received by this author, who was a Baron of the Exchequer in time of Edward IV. this was...

Predigest

To subject food to predigestion or artificial digestion

Precedent

Precedent, a decision is a precedent of its own features. Further, the enunciation of the reason or principle on which a question before a court has been decided is alone binding as a precedent, Uttaranchal Road...

Preamble

Preamble, in the British Parliament, a Preamble is not often incorporated now in a public Bill, however, it appears in a Bill of great Constitutional importance or in a Bill to give effect to international conventions,...

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