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Socna

Socna, a privilege, liberty, or franchise.

Suffrage

Suffrage [fr. suffragium; etymology uncertain], vote; elective franchise; voice given in a controverted point; aid; assistance. See ELECTORAL FRAN-CHISE. The right or privilege of casting a

Vote

Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889, p. 1094. Vote, suffrage voice given. See titles BALLOT and ELECTORAL FRANCHISE

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Warren

Warren [fr. waerande, Dut.; guerenne, Fr.]. A free warren is a franchise to have and keep certain wild beasts and fowls, called game, within the precincts of a manor, or

Forest Courts

chief itinerant judge, or his deputy, to hear and determine all trespasses within the forest, and claims of franchise, etc., therein arising. This was a Court of Record; but since the Revolution, in 1688, the forest laws

Free fishery

Free fishery, a royal franchise; being the exclusive right of fishing in a public river. Grants of this description cannot now be made,

County palatine

counties palatine are nowin the hands of the Crown: the jurisdiction of Durham is vested, as a separate franchise and royalty, in the Crown, by 6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 19; Lancaster was vested in the

Forest

Forest [fr. foresta, Ital.], an incorporeal hereditament, being the right or franchise of keeping, for the purpose of venery and hunting, the wild beasts and fowls of forest, chase, park,

vote

1 a : to cast or conduct a vote [ for acquittal] b : to exercise a political franchise [encourage people to ] vt 1 : to choose, endorse, decide the disposition of, defeat, or authorize by

deductible

initial specified loss of the kind insured against ;also : the amount specified in such a clause compare franchise

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