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Precedence or precedency
in which those marked * are entitled to the rank here allotted them by 31 Hen. 8, c. 10; marked ' by 1 W. & M. c. 1; marked by letters-patent, 9, 10 & 14 Jac. 1, … Precedence or precedency, the act or state of going before; adjustment of place. The rules of precedence may be reduced to the following list, in which those marked * are entitled to the rank here allotted
Bill of Rights
Princess of Orange, and afterwards enacted in Parliament, when they became King and Queen, as 1 W. & M., sess. 2, c. 2. Its Preambles sets forth that King James, by the assistance of evil counsellors, endeavoured
Numeric
Any number proper or improper fraction or incommensurable ratio The term also includes any imaginary expression like m nradic 1 where m and n are real numerics
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Armour and arms
his condition and degree, and allowed by law, and this right is embodied in the Bill of Rights, 1 W. & M. c. 2, s. 2. The Statute of Northampton, 2 Edw. 3, c. 3, prohibits persons … Armour and arms are understood in Law to mean things (see preceding title) which a person wears for defence, or takes in hand, or uses in anger,
Toleration Act
Toleration Act (English) (1 W. & M. st. 1, c. 18), confirmed by 10 Anne, c. 2, by which all persons dissenting from the Church
Rescue
24 Geo. 5, c. 12); rescues from prisons abroad, see 22 Vict. c. 25; of persons of unsound mind, see Lunacy Act, 1890. The act or an instance of saving or freeing someone from danger or captivity, … against law, a distress taken, or a person arrested by the process or course of law (Co. Litt. 160 b). Rescue of persons the custody of the law has been dealt with in by a number of
Hearth-money
14 Car. 2, c. 10. It was productive of great discontent, and was abolished by 1 W. & M. st. 1, c. 10. A tax of two shilling levied on every fireplace as England, Black's Law Dictionary,
Dissenters
are Independents. The penal laws, for the enforcement of legal uniformity, have been abrogated. The (English) Toleration Act, 1 W. & M. st. 1, c. 18, extended to Unitarians by 53 Geo. 3, c. 160, first allowed … Dissenters, Protestant seceders from the Established Church. They are of many denominations, principally Presbyterians, Independents or Congregationalists, Methodists, and Baptists; but as to Church government the Baptists are Independents.
Fumage, Fuage, or Fouage
10, took its origin hence. This hearth-money was declared a great oppression, and abolished by 1 W. & M., st. 1, c. 10; but a tax was afterwards laid upon all houses, except cottages, and upon all
M 1
A semiautomatic rifle which was standard issue to infantrymen in the United States Army in the mid 20th century
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