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Disuse
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Desuetude
Desuetude, disuse. In Scotland an Act is said to fall in to desuetude if, being of ancient date, it has
Disacquaintance
Neglect of disuse of familiarity or familiar acquaintance
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VerbarSinapis
A disused generic name for mustard now called Brassica
Obsoletism
A disused word or phrase an archaism
Desuete
Disused out of use
desuetude
desuetude [Latin desuetudo disuse, from desuescere to lose the habit of] : a doctrine holding that a statute may be abrogated because
Five-mile Act
to their usual place of abode, and not to remove above five miles from thence, repealed (after long disuse) by 7 & 8 Vict. c. 102. Also, 17 Car. 2, c. 2, whereby clergy who refused to
Wager of law
his neighbours (compuratores) to swear that they believed his denial to be true. It was abolished after long disuse [see, however, a revival of it in 1824 in King v. Williams, (1824) 2 B&C 538] by 3
Surveyor
by 33 Hen. 8, c. 39, for the benefit of the Crown. The Court had long fallen into disuse, when the ss. of that Act (of which many ss. relating to Crown debts are still upon the
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