Illustrious - Law Dictionary Search Results
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of expression a form of understatement as ldquo a citizen of no mean cityrdquo that is of an illustrious city or ldquonot badrdquo meaning ldquogoodrdquo
Medal
a coin struck with a device and intended to preserve the remembrance of a notable event or an illustrious person or to serve as a reward
Obscure
make dim to keep in the dark to hide to make less visible intelligible legible glorious beautiful or illustrious
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Civil Law
editor and expounder of the Theodosian Code is Jacobus Gothofredus, or Godfroy, who is the first and most illustrious of modern civilians. He bestowed his assiduous labour upon this code for thirty years, and left his great
Client
subsisted form any generations, and resembled in all respects a relationship by blood. It was the glory of illustrious families to have many clients, and to add to the number transmitted to them by their ancestors.
Gisle
Gisle, a pledge. Fredgisle, a pledge of peace. Gislebert, an illustrious pledge, Gibs. Camden
Morganatic marriage
Morganatic marriage. The lawful and inseparable conjunction of a man of noble or illustrious birth with a woman of inferior station, upon condition that neither the wife nor her children shall partake
Ignoble
Of low birth or family not noble not illustrious plebeian common humble
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