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Food stuff

to the preparation of food proper (as understood in the narrow sense) to make it more palatable and digestible In my opinion the problems posed cannot be answered in the abstract and must be viewed in relation

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 the canon

Habitual

of continuity stringing together similar repeated acts, Advanced Law Lexicon, 3rd Edn. by P. Ramanatha Aiyer, SC Annual Digest 2006, para 5454, p. 5452.

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Extent

lands of the deceased debtor, and seize them into the Crown's hands. See generally the cases in Mew's Digest, tit. 'Crown (Execution by Extent)'; West on Extents; Robertson on the Crown, ch. iii.

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.

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.

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,

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

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

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

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