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Ewry

Ewry, an office in the royal household where the table linen, etc., is taken care of.

Dependant and dependent

to the payment of compensation.' If several members of a family who contribute to the maintenance of the household are killed, the family is partly dependent on the earnings of each, Hodgson v. West Stanley Colliery Co.,

Deciners, Decenniers, or Doziners

King's peace. The limit and compass of their jurisdiction was called decenna, because it commonly consisted of ten households; as every person, bound for himself and his neighbours to keep the peace, was styled decennier, Bract. 1.

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Animals

from the date of the service of a notice, alleging a nuisance, signed by not less than three householders residing within hearing of the animal. The Public Health Act, 1936, s. 81(6), provides that local authorities may

Communication to the public

this clause, communication through satellite or cable or any other means of simultaneous communication to more than one household or place of residence including residential rooms of any hotel or hostel shall be deemed to be communication

Civil list

an annual sum granted by Parliament at the commencement of each reign, for the expenses of the royal household and establishment, as distinguished from the general exigencies of the state; it is the provision made for the

Check-roll

such as are attendants on, or in the pay of, the sovereign or other great personags, as their household servants, 19 Car. , c. 1.

Censor

acted for hire at any theatre in Great Britain, be sent to the Lord Chamberlain of His Majesty's Household, who will issue a license for its production or forbid it for the 'preservation of good manners, decorum,

Board of Green Cloth

Board of Green Cloth. See COUNTING HOUSE OF THE KING'S HOUSEHOLD.

Aula Regis, or Regia

hall; it was composed of the great officers of state resident in the palace, and followed the king's household in all his expeditions. The trial of common causes in it was, on this account, very burdensome to

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