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Fitzherbert

upon law in the reign of Henry VIII. He was first a serjeant, and some years after a judge, of the

Feasts

as altered by such Calendar. The Calendar prefixed to the First Prayer Book of Edw. 6 (which derived statutory authority from

Extravagantes

were published after the Clementines. They were so called because first they were not digested or arranged with the other papal

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Peremptory mandamus

issues where the return which has been made to the first writ is found either insufficient in law or false in

Quod prius est verius est; et quod prius est tempore potius est jure

est tempore potius est jure (Co. Litt. 347b), what is first is truer, and what is first in time is better

Piracy

seizing of a merchant vessel in time of war unless first ordered to submit to visit and search; (b) the attack

Settlement, Act of

the Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover (daughter of James the First's daughter, the Queen of Bohemia, and mother of George the

Executory devise

months after the testator decease, is an instance of the first class in this description. And the case of a limitation

Wills

a wills. (4) How wills are to be construed. The first s. enacts that the word 'will' shall extend to a

Whig

Hamilton's invasion of England in order to restore Charles the First. Sir Walter Scott, however, gives a different derivation. Speaking of

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