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Commandment
An order or injunction given by authority a command a charge a precept a mandate
Barmote
Barmote. The Great and Small Barmote Courts or inferior Courts dealing with rights of mining and mineral customs in certain parts … See the High Peak Mining Customs and Mineral Courts Act, 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. 94); and Order of the Chancellor of the Duchy of May 30, 1859, Statutory Rules and Orders Revised, 1904, 'Inferior Court,'
Boyar
A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great Also one of a privileged class in Roumania … A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great Also one of a privileged class in Roumania
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Cestidae
A family of invertebrates coextensive with the order Cestida ctenophores having a greatly flattened and elongated body … A family of invertebrates coextensive with the order Cestida ctenophores having a greatly flattened and elongated body
Colorado beetle
(English) Destructive Insects Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 68), was passed to prevent its introduction into Great Britain by means of orders (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Agriculture') prohibiting or regulating the landing of potatoes, etc.,
Judge Advocate, Judge Advocate-General
Judge Advocate, Judge Advocate-General. The Judge Advocate-General is an officer appointed by letters-patent under the Great Seal. He is under the orders of the Secretary of State for War to whom he acts as … the legality of the decision. The proceedings of courts-martial held abroad are also transmitted as directed by the order convening the Court or to the judge advocate-general, and preserved in his office. See Clode on Military Law.
Uses
a very equitable beginning, yet, like all new models and general schemes of ordering property, it intro-duced a great many unforeseen inconveniences, and subverted in many instances the institution and policy of the Common Law. 'Firstly. Estates … up their number pursuant to a power for that purpose, usually introduced into settlements of real property. In order to effect this it was formerly the practice for the old trustees to make a conveyance, which operates
Master of the Rolls
ranked next to the Lord Chancellor, and had the keeping of the rolls and grants which passed the Great Seal, and the records of the Chancery. All orders and decrees by him made, except such as by
Civil Law
the uneasiness occasioned by the continued quarrels of the particians and plebeians, rendered systematic legislation indispensable, so after great opposition on the part of the particians, a law was proposed by Caius Terentelius Horsa (B.C. 460, A.U.C. … were plebeians. The new laws drawn up by this new commission having been duly approved, and reduced to writing on two supplementary tables, made up the total number of Twelve Tables, by which name they were subsequently
Archdeacon
the Act of Appeals. He examines candidates for holy orders, and inducts clerks upon receipt of the bishop's mandate, Wood's Inst. 30. The Law styles him the bishop's vicar or vicegerent.
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