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Offerings

Offerings, personal tithes, payable by custom to the parson or vicar of a parish, either occasionally, as at sacraments, marriages,...

Offices of the Supreme Court. The offices of the Supreme Court are to be open every day except Sundays, Good...

Terms, the periods during which the superior courts at Westminster were open. The legal year consists of four terms: Michaelmas,...

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Oblations, offerings to God and the Church, fees payable to the clergy for marrying, burying, and by way of 'Easter...

Holiday, or Holyday, a feast day with cessation from labour, as by 5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3, all...

Hilary Sittings. These take the place, since the Judicature Act, of Hilary Term, beginning on the 11th of January, and...

Excommunication, an ecclesiastical interdict or censure, divided into the greater and the lesser; by the greater a person was excluded...

Income-tax, a tax of so much in the pound of income, under five classifications, according as derived from (A) ownership...

Lent [fr. lenten, Sax., spring], the time from Ash Wednesday to Easter Day. The forty days of Lent are days...

L'tare jerusalem, Lent or Easter offerings, so called from these words in the hymn of the day. They are also...

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