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Dignities

Dignities, a species of incorporeal hereditament, in which a man may

Human Dignity

Human Dignity, right to life. Includes right to live with human dignity. It is the duty of state not only...

Hereditaments

other profits in alieno solo, pensions, offices, franchises, liberties, villains, dignities. But Blackstone enumerates ten principal kinds:-Advowsons, tithes, commons, ways, offices,

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Majesty

The dignity and authority of sovereign power quality or state which inspires awe or reverence grandeur exalted dignity whether proceeding...

Contempt of court

Contempt of court, means civil contempt or criminal contempt. --A disobedience to or disregard of the rules, orders, process, or...

Cathedral preferments

Cathedral preferments, all deaneries, archdeaconries, and canonries, and generally all dignities and officers in any cathedral or collegiate church, below the

Earl

order of precedence, but the first in antiquity. (Cruise on Dignities (2nd Edn.) CIS 55: Co Rep 499, see also Halsbury's

Honour

manors held under one baron or lord paramount; also those dignities or privileges, degrees of nobility, knighthood, and other titles which

Northern Ireland

Crown, treaties and relations with foreign States, or the Dominions, dignities and titles of honour, treason, aliens, naturalization or domicile, cables

Patria potestas

loss of freedom or citizenship; (3) the son attaining certain dignities; (4) emancipation.

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