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A silver coin of France and since 1795 the unit of the French monetary system It has been adopted by Belgium and Swizerland In 1913 it was equivalent to about nineteen cents American or ten pence British and is divided into 100 centimes...
Regent diamond
A famous diamond of fine quality which weighs about 137 carats and is among the state jewels of France It is so called from the Duke of Orleans Regent of France to whom it was sold in 1717 by Pitt the English Governor of Madras whence also called the Pitt diamond who bought it of an Indian merchant in 1701...
Commandite, Partnerships en
Commandite, Partnerships en, partnerships in France which are limited, where the contract is between one or more persons, who are general partners, and jointly and severally responsible, and one or more other persons, who merely furnish a particular fund or capital stock, and thence are called commanditaries or commenditaries, or partners en commandite.-'The salient features of that system in its simplest form are these: There is a managing partner, who manages the affairs of the partnership and is under unlimited liability to creditors, and there is a sleeping partner, who contributes, or agrees to contribute, capital of specified amount for the purposes of the partnership. His liability is limited to the amount of his capital, and he is not allowed to take part in the management of the business. Particulars are registered. Sometimes there are several managing partners and several sleeping partners.' See Pollock on Partnership, 9th Edn. P. 207; Code of Commerce of France, arts. 23, 24...
Renvoi
Renvoi, a term employed in private international law to denote the sending, or determination, of a matter to or according to the law of a tribunal outside the jurisdiction where the question arose. Apparently, the Courts of France, Italy and Germany will apply the law of nationality, as in England, applies the law of the domicil, the latter law appears to have been applicable under German law in Germany, Re Askew, Majoribanks v. Askew, (1930) 2 Ch 259; and Italy Re Ross, Ross v. Waterfield, (1930) 1 Ch 377; and in France, as to movables Re Annesley, Davidson v. Annesley, (1926) 2 Ch 692. See Bate on the Doctrine of Renvoi.Means 'sending back'. The doctrine under which a court in resorting to foreign law adopts as well the foreign law's conflict-of-laws principles, which may in turn refer the court back to the law of the forum, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1300....
Saladinetenth
Saladinetenth, a tax imposed in England and France, in 1188, by Pope Innocent III., to raise a fund for the crusade undertaken by Richard I. of England and Philip Augustus of France against Saladin, Sultan of Egypt, then going to besiege Jerusalem. By this tax every person who did not enter himself a crusader was obliged to pay a tenth of his yearly revenue and of the value of all his movables, except his wearing apparel, books, and arms. The Carthusians, Bernardines, and some other religious persons were exempt. Gibbon remarks that when the necessity for this tax no longer existed, the Church still clung to it as too lucrative to be abandoned, and thus arose the tithing of ecclesiastical benefices for the Pope or other sovereigns; and see the preamble to 23 Hen. 8, c. 20, wherein it is recited that the court of Rome exacted great sums of money under the title of annates or first-fruits, which were first suffered to be taken within the realm 'for thonelye defence of Cristen people ayen...
Salute
Salute, a coin made by Henry V., after his conquest in France, where on the arms of England and France were stamped and quartered, Stow's Chron. 589....
franchise
franchise [Anglo-French, literally, freedom, liberty, from Middle French, from franchir to free, from Old French franc free] 1 : a special right or privilege granted by the government to an individual, group, or business entity: as a : a right to conduct a business and esp. to be and to exercise the powers of a corporation b : a right granted to a public utility company to provide services and to use public land for that purpose 2 : a constitutional or statutory right ;esp : the right to vote used with the [restricting them in employment, education, the , legal personality, and public accommodation "W. H. Burns"] 3 : a right or license that is granted to an individual or group to market a company's goods or services in a particular territory under the company's trademark, trade name, or service mark and that often involves the use of rules and procedures designed by the company and services (as advertising) and facilities provided by the company in return for fees, royalties, ...
Ballotage
In France a second ballot taken after an indecisive first ballot to decide between two or several candidates a runoff election...
bize
a dry cold north wind in southeastern France...
Blackfriar
A friar of the Dominican order so named becaise wearing wearing the black mantle of the Dominicans called also predicant and preaching friar in France Jacobin Also sometimes a Benedictine...
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