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Sighted

Having sight or seeing in a particular manner used in composition as long sighted short sighted quick sighted sharp sighted and the like...

Long sightedness

The state or condition of being long sighted hence sagacity shrewdness...

Long sighted

Able to see objects at a great distance hence having great foresight sagacious farseeing...

Bees, includes at any stage in their life cycle, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, 4th Edn., Para 529, p. 428.These are fer' natur' and the property in them is ratione soli; but a person retains the ownership in a swarm which flies from his land so long as he can keep them in sight and has the power to pursue them, even though the pursuit involve a trespass. If they take refuge on the land of another and he in due course reclaims them, then that person obtains a property in them propter industriam. See 2 Bl. Com. 392. The negligent keeping of bees in unreasonable numbers, at an unreasonable place, and with appreciable danger will render their owner liable for damage which they may cause, O'Gorman v. O'Gorman (1903) 2 IR 573. As to the bee pest in Ireland, see (English) Bee Pest Prevention (Ireland) Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 34)....

Magna Carta

Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...

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