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Gratitude
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Ingratitude
Lack of gratitude insensibility to forgetfulness of or ill return for kindness or favors received unthankfulness ungratefulness
Consideration
however obligatory they may be in morals or in honour. A moral consideration founded upon mere affection or gratitude will not support a simple contract, as was held in Eastwood v. Kenyon, (1840) 11 A&E 438, after
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Beholden
Obliged bound in gratitude indebted
Expressive
Serving to express utter or represent indicative communicative followed by of as words expressive of his gratitude
Halleluiah
Lord an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God and as an expression of gratitude or adoration
Civil list
science and attainments in literature and the arts, have merited the gracious consideration of their sovereign and the gratitude of their country.' [Civil List Act,1837, ss. 5, 6 as amended by Civil List Act, 1937, s. 9
Imperfect obligations
Imperfect obligations, moral duties, such as charity, gratitude, etc., which cannot be enforced by law. For an instance of payment of a debt of honour out
Royal Assent
(or, la reyne) s'avisera.' As acts of grace and amnesty originate with the Crown, the Clerk, expressing the gratitude of the subject, addresses the throne as follows: 'Les prelats, seigneurs, et communs, en ce present parlement assembles,
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