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Ballot
ticket, paper, etc., by which a vote is registered, Webster Dictionary of Law, p. 113. Means drawing of lots used in Parliament to determine the precedence among members desiring a share of Parliamentary time available for certain
Coparceners or parceners
she took the portion remaining after her sisters have made their choice. (d) Where they agreed to cast lots for their shares. (2) By the alienation of one of the parties which destroyed the unity of title.
Fortune
or deified power regarded as determining human success apportioning happiness and unhappiness and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life
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Anhlote
Anhlote, a single tribute or tax, paid according to the custom of the country as scot and lot, Leges Wm. I. c. 64.
Chit
Chit, means a transaction whether called chit, chit fund, Chitty, kuri or by any other name by or under which a person enters into an agreement with a specified number of persons that every one of...
Complete destruction
Complete destruction, in Article 592 of American Jurisprudence, the statement of law on the consequences of complete destruction of a building is stated as under: 592. Complete destruction. - The common-law rule that a lessee is...
Constitution
Constitution, any regular form or system of government. Also a particular law, ordinance, or regulation made by the authority of any superior; as the Novel Constitutions of Justinian and his successors; the Constitutions of Clarendon; the...
Decimation
Decimation, signifies tithing, or paying a tenth part. The punishing every tenth soldier by lot for mutiny or other failure of duty was termed decimatio legionis by the Romans.
New trial
New trial. If any defect of judgment happen from causes wholly extrinsic, i.e., arising from matters foreign to or dethors the record, the only remedy the party injured by it has (except formerly error coram nobis...
Dole
Dole, the act of distribution or dealing; a portion or lot; a boundary mark, e.g., a post or mound of earth; also popularly employed to denote sums to which unemployed persons are entitled under the Unemployment...
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