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family first preference

family first preference A category of family immigration (F1) for unmarried sons and

first preference

first preference A category of family immigration (F1) for unmarried sons and

Preferred

indictment. To give advantage, priority, or privilege; to select for first payment, as to prefer one creditor over others. Thus it … Preferred, 'preferred' is a word of dual import; its semantics depend

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Indictment

Middlesex by virtue of certain enactments set out in the 1st Schedule (high treason and certain other offences tribal in the … accusation against one or more persons of a crime formerly preferred to and presented upon oath by a grand jury. Grand

First fruits

First fruits, an incident to the old feudal tenures, being one … 26 Hen. 8, c. 3, by the then holders of preferments. But both first fruits and tenths were abolished by the

Preferential voting

allowed to indicate on their ballots their preference usually their first and second choices between two or more candidates for an

Freedom of expression

formulation of common decisions. Indeed, freedom of expression is the first condition of liberty. It occupies a preferred position in the … 641: (1985) 2 SCR 287. Freedom of voting by expressing preference for a candidate is nothing but freedom of expressing oneself

Primitia

The first fruit the first years whole profit of an ecclesiastical prefermentfirst fruit the first years whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment

Priority

to 34, (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, and the First Sch., which provides that in the administration of the estate … of such person shall be entitled to any priority or preference by reason merely that the same is secured by or

Uncle and nephew

was by the general law in force immediately before the 1st January 1926, preferred in the inheritance to his uncle, a … general law in force immediately before the 1st January 1926, preferred in the inheritance to his uncle, a younger brother of

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