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Presumptive title

land has the fee-simple in it, unless there be evidence rebutting such pre-sumption, or his possession be properly explained and shown to be consonant with the right of the true proprietor of the reversionary fee. Such a

Prerogative of mercy

free pardon for felony by sign manual. The practice of obtaining a free pardon before 1848 was fully explained in a letter to the Home Secretary by the judges who formed the Special Commission before whom Frost

Ambiguitas verborum latens verificatione suppletur, nam quod ex facto oritur ambiguum verificatione facti tollitur

verificatione suppletur, nam quod ex facto oritur ambiguum verificatione facti tollitur [Lat.], Latent ambiguity of words may be explained by evidence: for ambiguity arising upon proof of extraneous fact is removed in like manner.

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Moralize

To apply to a moral purpose to explain in a moral sense to draw a moral from

Solvable

Susceptible of being solved resolved or explained admitting of solution

Catoptrics

That part of optics which explains the properties and phenomena of reflected light and particularly that which is reflected from mirrors or polished bodies

Explication

The act of opening unfolding or explaining explanation exposition interpretation

Explicable

Capable of being explicated that may be explained or accounted for admitting explanation

Explanation

The act of explaining expounding or interpreting the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible as the explanation of a passage

Epideictic

Serving to show forth explain or exhibit applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory which by full amplification seeks to persuade

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