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Civil Law

Books. Others attribute it to the superstitious respect of the ancients for the number seven, as the most perfect. This book is variously quoted by the letter D.P. or, and p, which latter is supposed to be … which is the beginning of the title, and those which follow, Paragraphs. The Institute are quoted with the letter I. or Inst.; thus 'si adversus, 12 I. De Nuptiis, is nothing more than 12 paragraphs of the

Magna Carta

enacts that:-'If any that holdeth of us lay-fee do die, and our sheriff or bailiff do show our letters-patents of our summons for debt, which the dead man did owe to us, it shall be lawful to … Cornwell to abolish this military tenure, which he did by intermitting the Court of Wards in 1645. So perfectly hopeless was the renewal of this oppressive system at the restoration of the second Charles, that the provision

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Exact

correct precise as the clock keeps exact time he paid the exact debt an exact copy of a letter exact accounts … Precisely agreeing with a standard a fact or the truth perfectly conforming neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect true correct precise as the clock keeps exact time

Trust

can be established by any subsequent acknowledgment of the trustee, however informally or indirectly made, as by a letter under his hand, by his statement of defence in an action, or by a recital in a deed, … in cortice. Trusts may be classed thus:- (I.) Express, or defined by words; divided into- (a) Trusts executed, perfect, complete, or constituted. (b) Trusts executory, imperfect, incomplete, or directory. (II.) Arising by operation of law, such as

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