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Elder Brethren. A name of the Masters of the Trinity House (see that title).A distinguished body of men elected as master of Trinity House, and institution incorporated in reign of Henry VIII and charged with many duties of marine affairs, such as superintending light-houses, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 535....
Trinity masters
Trinity masters, Elder Brethren of Trinity House. Two sit as assessors in Admiralty and Prize Courts to assist the judge in cases in which technical questions of navigation arise....
Plymouth Brethren
The members of a religious sect which first appeared at Plymouth England about 1830 They protest against sectarianism and reject all official ministry or clergy Also called Brethren Christian Brethren Plymouthists etc The Darbyites are a division of the Brethren...
Elderly
Somewhat old advanced beyond middle age bordering on old age as elderly people...
Diselder
To deprive of an elder or elders or of the office of an elder...
elderberry
The berrylike drupe of the elder That of the Old World elder Sambucus nigra and that of the American sweet elder S Canadensis are sweetish acid and are eaten as a berry or made into wines or jellies...
Darbyite
One of the Plymouth Brethren or of a sect among them so called from John N Darby one of the leaders of the Brethren...
Dunker
One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists but partly those of the Quakers called also Tunkers Dunkards Dippers and by themselves Brethren and German Baptists and they call their denomination the Church of the Brethren...
Hospitals
Hospitals, eleemosynary corporations. They are either aggregate, in which the master or warden and his brethren have the estate of inheritance; or sole, in which the master, etc., only has the estate in him, and the brethren or sisters, having college and common seal in them, must consent, or the master alone has the estate, not having college or common seal. So hospitals are eligible, donatives, or preventative, Jac. Law Dict.By 39 Eliz. c. 5, made perpetual by 21 Jac. 1, c. 1, any person seised of an estate in fee-simple may, by deed enrolled in Chancery, erect and found a hospital for the sustenance and relief of 'the maimed, poor, needy, or impotent people'; but no such hospital may be erected unless endowed with lands or hereditaments of the yearly value of 20l.For power of local authorities to provide hospitals for their districts, see Public Health Act, 1875, s. 131; Isolation Hospitals Acts, 1893, 1901 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 68; 1 Edw. 7, c. 8), all repealed from Oct. 1937 and repla...
Possessio fratris
Possessio fratris, a seisin to turn the descent away from the brother of the half-blood to the sister of the whole-blood; thus, if a father had two sons, A. and B., by different wives, these two brethren were not brethren of the whole-blood, and therefore could never inherit to each other, but the estate rather escheated to the lord. Nay, even if the father died, and his lands descended to his eldest son, A., who entered thereon, and died seised without issue, still B. could not be heir to this estate, because he was only of the half-blood to A., the person last seised; but it descended to a sister (if any) of the whole-blood to A.; for in such cases the maxim was that the seisin, or possessio fratris, made the sister the heiress. Yet, had A. died without entry, B. might have inherited, not as heir to A., his half-brother, but as heir to their common father, who was the person last actually seised, 2 Bl. Com. 227. Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106....
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