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Prerogative of mercy
by the judge to James II. in Lady Lisle's case, 11 How St Tr 297 (378). In the eighteenth century conditional pardons for felony were regularly granted in order that the offender might transport himself for a
Levitical degrees
Levitical degrees, degrees of kindred within which persons are prohibited to marry. They are set forth in the eighteenth chapter of Leviticus. By 32 Hen. 8, c. 38, it is declared that all persons may lawfully marry,
Juvenile or child
Juvenile or child, means a person who has not completed eighteenth year of age. [Juvenile Justice [Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 (56 of 2000), s. 2 (k)]
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Gordon Riots
Erskine and acquitted for want of evidence; see 21 St. Tr. 485; Lecky's Hist. of England in the Eighteenth Century, ch. xii. For an account of the riots, see Dickens's Barnaby Rudge; and Memoirs of Sir Samuel
Sandemanian
A follower of Robert Sandeman a Scotch sectary of the eighteenth century See Glassite
Electoral franchise
to the value of 40s. by the year (8 Hen. 6, c. 7). Towards the end of the eighteenth century the residence qualification was abolished. The (English) Reform Act, 1832, extended the franchise to 10l. copyholders and
East India Company
England and India, which they acquired as a right to carry on exclusively. By the middle of the eighteenth century, however, the company's political affairs had become of far more importance than their commerce. In 1858, by
Smallsword
A light sword used for thrusting only especially the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century
Rococo
A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century
Macco
A gambling game in vogue in the eighteenth century
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