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Baron
beorn, Sax., noble], the fifth and lowest degree of nobility, next to a viscount, and above that of a knight or … or baronet. In the Salic Law it signifies free-born. The present barons are-(1) By prescription; for that they and their ancestors
Deathbed or Dying Declarations
of interest in a person on the verge of the next world, which dispenses with the necessity of cross-examination. But before … making the same evidence after death, and for prisoners being present at the taking of such depositions. The party implicated, however,
Insurance
each year for the payment of the premium for the next year; and provided the premium be paid within that time, … of them Revenue Acts. The policy was settled in its present form in 1779, but most of its provisions are of
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Tail
of legitimation, a legitimated person will rank according to seniority next after all children born legitimate on the day of his … is, in many respects, but not in all (as will presently be seen), analogous to the abolished 'tenant to the pracipe'
Turnpike-roads
time as they were about to expire; and in the next place by statutes of a general description, of which the … which, though temporary, were, until about the middle of the present century, almost invariably renewed by the legislature from time to
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