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Gracious
Abounding in grace or mercy manifesting love or bestowing mercy characterized by grace beneficent merciful disposed to show kindness or favor condescending as his most gracious majesty...
Les Prelats, Seigneurs, et Communes en ce present Parlement assemblees, au nom de touts vos autres sujets, remercient tres humblement votre Majeste, et prient a Dieu vous donner en sante bonne vie et longue
Les Prelats, Seigneurs, et Communes en ce present Parlement assemblees, au nom de touts vos autres sujets, remercient tres humblement votre Majeste, et prient a Dieu vous donner en sante bonne vie et longue.-The prelates, lords, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, in the name of all your other subjects, most humbly thank your Majesty, and pray to God to grant you in health a good and long life.) The form of words used by the clerk in an act of grace or indemnity, which originates with the Crown, or, so to speak, has the royal assent before it is agreed to by the two Houses....
Overgrace
To grace or honor exceedingly or beyond desert...
Pretty
Pleasing by delicacy or grace attracting but not striking or impressing of a pleasing and attractive form a color having slight or diminutive beauty neat or elegant without elevation or grandeur pleasingly but not grandly conceived or expressed as a pretty face a pretty flower a pretty poem...
Pulchritude
That quality of appearance which pleases the eye beauty comeliness grace loveliness...
Rue
A perennial suffrutescent plant Ruta graveolens having a strong heavy odor and a bitter taste herb of grace It is used in medicine...
Booty of war
Booty of war, property captured in war on land which falls to the forces capturing by grace of the Crown or to the Crown itself. By 3 & 4 Vict. c. 65, s. 22, the jurisdiction in matters of booty of war is in the Admiralty Jurisdiction of the High Court, on a reference by the sovereign. See Judic. Act, 1925, s. 22. See Banda and Kirwee Booty, (1875) LR 4 Adm. & E. 436. Appeals lie to the Privy Council, ibid., s. 27. See ADMIRALTY; PRIZE COURT....
Caritas, or Karite
Caritas, or Karite, a grace cup, an extraordinary allowance of wine or liquor...
Collateral
Collateral, indirect, sideways, that which hangs by the side; applied in several ways, thus:--collateral assurance, that which is made over and above the deed itself; collateral consanguinity or kindred, which descend from the same stock or ancestor as the lineal relation, but do not descend one from the other, as the issue of two sons; collateral issue, where a criminal convict pleads any matter allowed by law, in bar of execution, as pregnancy, pardon, an act of grace, or diversity of person, viz., that he or she is not the same that was attained, etc., the issue upon which when taken is tried by a jury instanter; collateral security, where a deed is made of other property, besides that already mortgaged, for the better safety of the mortgagee (see Re Athill, (1880) 16 Ch D 211) or a bill of exchange given, or pledge deposited to secure a pre-existing debt; and collateral contract, where a contract by word of mouth co-exists [see e.g., Morgan v. Griffiths, (1871) LR 6 Ex 70; De Lassa...
County Corporate
County Corporate. To certaincities and towns the sovereigns of England have, out of special grace and favour, granted the privilege to be counties of themselves, and not to be comprised in any other county, but to be governed by their own sheriffs and other magistrate, so that no officers of the county at large have any power to intermeddle therein. Twelve cities and five towns are counties of themselves, and have, consequently, their ownsheriffs. Thecities are London, Chester, Bristol, Coventry, Canterbury, Exeter, Gloucester, Lichfield, Lincoln, Norwich, Worcester, York. The towns are Kingston-upon-Hull, Nottingham, New-castle-upon-Tyne, Poole, Southampton...
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