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Coarse rough hair in wool or fur injuring its quality...
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Rough shaggy...
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The long flower stems of the ribwort plantain Plantago Lanceolata...
Chose
Chose [Fr., a thing]; it is used in divers senses, of which the four following are the most important:--(1) Chose local, a thing annexed to a place, as a mill, etc.(2) Chose transitory, that which is movable, and may be taken away, or carried from place to place.(3) Chose in action, otherwise called chose in suspense, a thing of which a man has not the possession or actual enjoyment, but has a right to demand by action or other proceedings, as a debt, bond, etc. A well-known rule of the Common Law was that no possibility, right, title, or thing in action, could be assigned to a third party, for it was thought that a different rule would be the occasion of multiplying litigation: as it would in effect be transferring a lawsuit to a mere stranger, though the assignee might, at law, and was assisted in equity to sue the debtor in the name of the assignor. At law, therefore, with the exception of negotiable instruments, an interesse termini, and some few other securities, this until 1873 c...
Spinning-house
Spinning-house, a place of confinement in Cambridge to which the University authorities might, by virtue of the University Charter (confirmed by 13 Eliz. c. 29), commit public women and others suspected of evil. See Kemp v. Neville, (1861) 10 CBNS 523; Broom's Const. Law, p. 734, in which the Vice-Chancellor was unsuccessfully sued by a Cambridge milliner committed by him after apprehension by a proctor, and Ex parte Hopkins, (1891) 61 LJQB 240, where the conviction of a woman upon a charge of walking with a member of the University was held bad. This jurisdiction was taken away from the University in 1894 by 57 & 58 Vict. c. lx....
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