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International Law

in a great measure unknown to antiquity, and is the slow growth of modern times, under the combined influence of Christianity, intercourse, commerce and war. II. Private Law (Conflict of Laws): It is plain that the laws

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

of habeas corpus in liberating the subject from illegal confinement in a public prison, it also extends its influence to remove every unlawful restraint of personal freedom in private life, availing, for instance, to restore children to

Secreto motory

Causing secretion said of nerves which go to glands and influence secretion

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Black mail

money, coin, or other thing, anciently paid to persons upon or near the borders, who were men of influence and allied with robbers and brigands, for protection from the devastations of the latter. It was in fact

Semi Pelagian

448 who modified the doctrines of Pelagius by denying human merit and maintaining the necessity of the Spirits influence while on the other hand he rejected the Augustinian doctrines of election the inability of man to do

Solar myth

A myth which essentially consists of allegory based upon ideas as to the suns course motion influence or the like

Ambidexter

Ambidexter, one who plays on both sides. A juror or embraceror, who takes bribes from both parties to influence his verdict, Termes de la Ley

Articles, Lords of the

in the mode of its election, and by the nature of its powers, was calculated to increase the influence of the Crown, and to confer upon it a power equivalent to that of a negative before debate.

Baron and feme

Baron and feme [fr.], husband and wife. A wife being under the protection and influence of her Baron, lord, or husband, is styled a feme-covert (f'mina viro cooperta), and her state of marriage

Black list

Motor Trades Association, (1921) 3 KB 41, as to putting a person's name on a black list to influence people to abstain from trading with him. To put the name of (a person) on a list who

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