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Liberty of the Rules
Liberty of the Rules, a privilege to go out of the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons within certain limits and there reside. Abolished by 5 & 6 Vict. c. 22.
Judge Advocate, Judge Advocate-General
Judge Advocate, Judge Advocate-General. The Judge Advocate-General is an officer appointed by letters-patent under the Great Seal. He is under the orders of the Secretary of State for War to whom he acts as legal adviser....
Prefect
A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command charge department etc as the prefect of the aqueducts the prefect of a camp of a fleet of the city guard of provisions the pretorian prefect...
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Hindu undivided family
Hindu undivided family, A Hindu undivided family is a fleeting body. Its composition changes by births, deaths, marriages and divorces. Such a partnership is likely to have a precarious existence, Messrs Agarwal and Co. v. Commissioner...
Fleta
Fleta, seu Commentarius Juris Anglicani, a treatise upon the whole law, as it stood at the time this author wrote, which serves as an appendix, and often as a commentary, to Bracton. The author was wholly...
Flecta
Flecta, a feathered or fleet arrow.
Flag officer
Flag officer, means an officer of the rank of Admiral of the Fleet, Admiral, Vice-Admiral or Real-Admiral. [Navy Act, 1962 (57 of 1962), s. 3(8)]
Domicile
Domicile, the place where a person has his home. By the term 'domicile,' in its ordinary acceptation, is meant the place where a person lives or has his home. In this sense the place where a...
Alsatia
Alsatia, formerly a cant name for Whitefriars, a district in London between the Thames and Fleet Street, and adjoining the Temple, which, possessing certain privileges of sanctuary, became for that reason a nest of those mischievous...
Admiral
Admiral, [derived through the Fr. amiral, from Amir al Bahir, Arab., commander of the sea or fleet], an officer having high command in the Royal Navy. An admiral has two subordinate commanders under him, a vice-admiral...
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