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Moabite stone
A block of black basalt found at Dibon in Moab by Rev F A Klein Aug 19 1868 which bears an inscription of thirty four lines dating from the 9th century b c and written in...
Post fine
A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands when the same was fully passed called also the kings silver
Skat
A three handed card game played with 32 cards of which two constitute the skat sense 2 or widow The players bid for the privilege of attempting any of several games or tasks in most of...
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Smothered mate
Checkmate given when movement of the king is completely obstructed by his own men This can only occur when an opponent moves a knight into a position to give a check to the king
Abdication
Abdication, where a magistrate or person in office voluntarily renounces or gives it up. It differs from resignation, in that resignation is made by one who has received his office from another and restores it into...
Accolade
Accolade [fr. accoler, Fr., Collum amplecti, Lat.], a ceremony anciently used in knighthood, by the king putting his hand upon the knight's neck, Cowel. Greg. De Tours writes, that the kings of France, in conferring the...
Act of Settlement
Act of Settlement, 12 & 13 Wm. 3, c. 2 (1700), limiting the Crown, after the death of William III. And Princess (afterwards Queen) Anne, to the Princess Sophia of Hanover, and to the heirs of...
Ad jura regis
Ad jura regis, a writ which was brought by the king's clerk, presented to a living, against those who endeavoured to eject him, to the prejudice of the king's title, Reg. Brev., 61.
Articles of the peace
Articles of the peace, a complaint exhibited either in the King's Bench Division of the High Court, Court of Oyer and Terminer, or Court of Summary Jurisdiction, when any one has just cause to fear that...
Bail
Bail [fr. bailler, Fr., to hand over], to set at liberty a person arrested or imprisoned, on security being taken for his appearance on a day and at a place certain, which security is called bail,...
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Moabite stone
A block of black basalt found at Dibon in Moab by Rev F A Klein Aug 19 1868 which bears an inscription of thirty four lines dating from the 9th century b c and written in...
Post fine
A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands when the same was fully passed called also the kings silver
Skat
A three handed card game played with 32 cards of which two constitute the skat sense 2 or widow The players bid for the privilege of attempting any of several games or tasks in most of...
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Smothered mate
Checkmate given when movement of the king is completely obstructed by his own men This can only occur when an opponent moves a knight into a position to give a check to the king
Abdication
Abdication, where a magistrate or person in office voluntarily renounces or gives it up. It differs from resignation, in that resignation is made by one who has received his office from another and restores it into...
Accolade
Accolade [fr. accoler, Fr., Collum amplecti, Lat.], a ceremony anciently used in knighthood, by the king putting his hand upon the knight's neck, Cowel. Greg. De Tours writes, that the kings of France, in conferring the...
Act of Settlement
Act of Settlement, 12 & 13 Wm. 3, c. 2 (1700), limiting the Crown, after the death of William III. And Princess (afterwards Queen) Anne, to the Princess Sophia of Hanover, and to the heirs of...
Ad jura regis
Ad jura regis, a writ which was brought by the king's clerk, presented to a living, against those who endeavoured to eject him, to the prejudice of the king's title, Reg. Brev., 61.
Articles of the peace
Articles of the peace, a complaint exhibited either in the King's Bench Division of the High Court, Court of Oyer and Terminer, or Court of Summary Jurisdiction, when any one has just cause to fear that...
Bail
Bail [fr. bailler, Fr., to hand over], to set at liberty a person arrested or imprisoned, on security being taken for his appearance on a day and at a place certain, which security is called bail,...
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