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Caliphate
The office dignity or government of a caliph or of the caliphs
Baronet
A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight having precedency of all orders of
Contempt of court
court, means civil contempt or criminal contempt. --A disobedience to or disregard of the rules, orders, process, or dignity of a Court, which has power to punish for such offence by committal. Contempts are either direct, which
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Heirloom
real estate when they were an incident of the tenure of land, or were necessary for maintaining the dignity of the owner of land or the possessor of a title. An ancient horn, where the tenure was
Sthanam
in the west coast had attached to their families an office called Sthanam meaning literally 'status, rank, or dignity'. The holder of Sthanam was called a Sthanee or Sthanamdar. The rule granted Sthanams to their Chieftains and
Peer
peers is apparently undecided owing to the establishment of the Irish Free State. The king cannot create a dignity with a mesne between baron and baronets (Co. Litt. 16, b, Hargrave note 8). A member of the
Popedom
The place office or dignity of the pope papal dignity
Fee-simple
freehold estate of inheritance, absolute and unqualified. It stands at the head of estates as the highest in dignity and the most ample in extent; since every other kind of estate is derivable there out, and mergeable
Dignities
of incorporeal hereditament, in which a man may have a property or estate. As an incorporeal hereditament, a dignity was held to be 'land' within the meaning of s. 37 of the Settled Land Act, 1882 [Re
Baronet
Baronet [fr. Baron, Fr., and et, diminutive termination], the holder of a dignity of inheritance created by letters-patent, and descendible to the issue male. The order was instituted in 1611 by
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