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Home Dictionary Name: morrowCrastination
Procrastination a putting off till to morrow...
Morrow
Morning...
Morwe
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Overmorrow
The day after or following to morrow...
Procrastinate
To put off till to morrow or from day to day to defer to postpone to delay as to procrastinate repentance...
Clausum pasch'
Clausum pasch', the morrow of the utas (or eight days) of Easter; the end of Easter; the Sunday after Easter-day, 2 Inst. 157....
Crastino
Crastino, the morrow after....
Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff
Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff [fr. scire, Sax., fr. scyran, to divide, and gerefa, a guardian (vicecomes)], the chief officer of the Crown in every county.The judges, together with the other great officers and privy councillors, meet in the Exchequer on the morrow (November 12th) of St. Martin, yearly; and then and there the judges propose three persons from each county, to be reported, if approved of, to the King, who afterwards appoints one of them to be sheriff, and such appointment generally takes place about the end of the following Hilary Term. If a sheriff die in office, the appointment of another is the mere act of the Crown.The Sheriffs Act, 1887, repeals and, so far as they were not obsolete, re-enacts the very numerous enactments as to sheriffs from 3 Edw. 1, c. 9, to s. 16 of the (English) Judicature Act, 1881, inclusive. By s. 3 of this Act a sheriff is annually appointed, having (s. 4) sufficient land within the county to answer the King and his people; by s. 23 every ...
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