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Home Dictionary Name: extantExtant variety
Extant variety, means a variety available in India Which is (i) notified under s. 5 of the Seeds Act, 1966 (54 of 1966), or (ii) farmers' variety, or (iii) a variety about which there is common knowledge, or (iv) any other variety which is in public domain. [Protection of Plants Varieties and Farmer's Right Act, 2001 (53 of 2001), s. 2(j)]...
Brasenia
a magnoliid genus a genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as the most primitive of extant angiosperms alternatively a member of the family Nymphaeaceae...
Capybara
A large South American rodent Hydrochaeligrus capybara Living on the margins of lakes and rivers It is the largest extant rodent being about three feet long and half that in height It somewhat resembles the Guinea pig to which it is related called also cabiai and water hog...
Extant
Standing out or above any surface protruded...
Hittite
A member of an ancient people or perhaps group of peoples whose settlements extended from Armenia westward into Asia Minor and southward into Palestine They are known to have been met along the Orontes as early as 1500 b c and were often at war with the Egyptians and Assyrians Especially in the north they developed a considerable civilization of which numerous monuments and inscriptions are extant Authorities are not agreed as to their race While several attempts have been made to decipher the Hittite characters little progress has yet been made...
VerbarLiriodendron
A genus of large and very beautiful trees of North America having smooth shining leaves and handsome tuliplike flowers tulip tree whitewood called also canoewood Liriodendron tulipifera is the only extant species but there were several others in the Cretaceous epoch...
Magnoliidae
a group of families of trees and shrubs and herbs having well developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants contains 36 families including Magnoliaceae and Ranunculaceae sometimes classified as a superorder...
Civil Law
Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law.The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to that which the Romans complied from the laws of nature and nations.The 'Roman Law'and the 'Civil Law' are convertible phrases, meaning the same system of jurisprudence; it is now frequently denominated 'the Roman Civil Law.'The collections of Roman Civil Law, before its reformation in the sixth century of the Christian era by the eastern Emperor Justinian, were the following:--(1) Leges Regi'. These laws were for the most part promulgated by Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Servius Tullius. To Romulus are ascribed the formation of a constitutional government, and the imposition of a fine, instead of death, for crimes; Numa Pompilius composed the laws relating to religion and divine worship, and abated the rigour of subsisting laws; and Servius Tullius, the sixth king,...
Dome-book
Dome-book [liber judicialis, Lat.], a book composed under the direction of Alfred, for the general use of the whole kingdom, containing the local customs of the several provinces of the kingdom. This book is said to have been extant so late as the reign of Edward IV., but is now lost....
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
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