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Four seas
(1) The Atlantic, which comprises the Irish Sea and St. George's Channel; (2) The North Sea; (3) The German Ocean; and (4) The English Channel. See Woolrych on Waters. Before the reign of James the First, the
Felony
deduce it fr. Gk., a deceiver, and fallo, Lat., to deceive; Spelman derives it fr. the Teutonic or German fee, a fieu or fiet, and lon, price or value; Coke says, 'Ex vi termini significat quodlibet capitale
Emperor
Austria and Russia were also styled emperor; and in 1870 the King of Prussia assumed the title of German Emperor. The King is Emperor of India by virtue of the (English) Royal Titles Act, 1876 (39 &
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Earl
now the third, ranking between a marquis and a viscount, and corresponding with the French Comte and the German Graf. The title originated with the Saxons, and is the most ancient of the English peerage. William the
Sacramentarian
A name given in the sixteenth century to those German reformers who rejected both the Roman and the Lutheran doctrine of the holy eucharist
Diet
Diet [fr. dies, Lat., an appointed day, Skinner; or diet, an old German word, meaning a multitude, Junius]. I.--A deliberative assembly of princes or estates. II.--Food. The statute of Nottingham, 10
Cousin
Cousin [fr. Cousin, Fr.; cugino, It.; consobrinus, Lat., whence cusdrin, susrin; sabrino, Sp.]. A cousin is any collateral relation except brothers and sistes, and their descendants, and the brothers and sisters of any ancestor. The child...
Client
the same element as they verb clueo, to hear of obey, and accordingly compared by Niebuhr with the German word hoeriger, a dependent], a person who seeks advice of a lawyer or commits his cause to the
Belg'
Belg', the ancient name of the inhabitants of Somersetshire, Wiltshire, and Hampshire; also of the city of Wells, in Somersetshire. Probably a Celtic tribe. The Romans, whom they resisted for nearly 100 years, included them indiscriminately...
Begar
in U.S.A., it was abolished under the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865, the Japanese and West German Constitutions too have abolished involuntary servitude, Commentary on Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. D, pp. 182-183.
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