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Hommock
A small eminence of a conical form of land or of ice a knoll a hillock See Hummock
corporation
a charter) by a superior governing authority (as a state) and endowed with powers of local self-government (as eminent domain) ;broadly : a public corporation (as a utility) created to act as an agency of administration and
just compensation
just compensation : compensation for property taken under eminent domain that places a property owner in the same position as before the property is taken see also
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Supremacy, Oath of
Supremacy, Oath of, the abolished oath prescribed for nearly 200 years, together with the oath of allegiance, was to be taken by various high officers and persons by 1 W. & M. c. 8, and also...
Freedom of a borough
in favour of the admission to be honorary freemen of persons of distinction and persons who have rendered eminent services to the borough (see now (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51),
Deprivation
liberty or property of the subjects, under a valid law. Refers to property taken under the power of eminent domain, A Dictionary of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 347.
Digest
various classes or departments; particularly the Pandects of Justinian in fifty books, containing the opinions and writings of eminent lawyers, digested in a systematical method. (See PANDECTS.) An ordered collection of legal principles, as Mr. Justice Stephen's
egularly kept books of account
account, to ascertain whether a book of account has been regularly kept the nature of occupation is an eminent factor for weighment. The test of regularity of keeping accounts by a shopkeeper who has daily transactions cannot
Expropriation
wholly or partially. See Housing Acts. A government taking or modification of an individual's property rights, esp. by eminent domain, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 602.
Stradling v. Stiles
an argument in banco, published in Martinus Scribelrus's works. It is, in part, the work of Fortescue, an eminent lawyer who subsequently became a baron of the Exchequer.
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