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Preferred
preferring an indictment signifies prosecuting or trying an indictment. To give advantage, priority, or privilege; to select for first payment, as to prefer one creditor over others. Thus it may mean 'prosecute' or effectively pursue a proceeding … Preferred, 'preferred' is a word of dual import; its semantics depend on the scheme and the context; its import
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Indictment
grand juries of the Counties of London and Middlesex by virtue of certain enactments set out in the 1st Schedule (high treason and certain other offences tribal in the King's Bench Division). Indictments were of a highly … Indictment [fr. indico, Lat., to show], a written accusation against one or more persons of a crime formerly preferred to and presented upon oath by a grand jury. Grand juries were partly abolished by the Administration of
First fruits
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Preferential voting
as at primaries in which the voters are allowed to indicate on their ballots their preference usually their first and second choices between two or more candidates for an office so that if no candidate receives a
Freedom of expression
are entitled to participate in the process of formulation of common decisions. Indeed, freedom of expression is the first condition of liberty. It occupies a preferred position in the hierarchy of liberties giving succour and protection to … India, AIR 1986 SC 515: (1985) 1 SCC 641: (1985) 2 SCR 287. Freedom of voting by expressing preference for a candidate is nothing but freedom of expressing oneself in relation to a matter of prime concern
Primitia
The first fruit the first years whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment … The first fruit the first years whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment
Priority
of Estates Act, 1869, reproduced by ss. 32 to 34, (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, and the First Sch., which provides that in the administration of the estate of any person who shall die on or … after 1st January, 1870, no debt or liability of such person shall be entitled to any priority or preference by reason merely that the same is secured by or arises under a bond, deed, or other instrument
Uncle and nephew
nephew, the son of a deceased elder brother, was by the general law in force immediately before the 1st January 1926, preferred in the inheritance to his uncle, a younger brother of the deceased. And see NEPHEW. … of a deceased elder brother, was by the general law in force immediately before the 1st January 1926, preferred in the inheritance to his uncle, a younger brother of the deceased. And see NEPHEW. See DISTRIBU-TION OF
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