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Ninthly

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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...


Prophylactic

Prophylactic, as per Concise Oxford Dictionary,9th Edn., the term 'prophylactic' would means 'intending to prevent diseases, a preventive medicine or course of action', ICPA Health Products (P) Ltd. v. CCF, (2004) 4 SCC 481 (483).It would mean intending to prevent diseases, a preventive medicine or course of action, Concise Oxford Dictionary, 9th Edn.; ICPA Health Products (P) Ltd. v. CCE, (2004) 4 SCC 481....


circuit

circuit 1 a : a route formerly taken by traveling judges b : a district established within a state or the federal judicial system see also the Judicial System in the back matter 2 cap : the court of appeals for a circuit in the federal judicial system [after the 9th Circuit's ruling "V. M. Sher"] ...


Chislev

The third month of the Jewish civil year the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar occupying a part of November and a part of December same as Kislev...


Eastern Church

That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church It became estranged from the Western or Roman Church over the question of papal supremacy and the doctrine of the filioque and a separation begun in the latter part of the 9th century became final in 1054 The Eastern Church consists of twelve thirteen if the Bulgarian Church be included mutually independent churches including among these the Hellenic Church or Church of Greece and the Russian Church using the vernacular or some ancient form of it in divine service and varying in many points of detail but standing in full communion with each other and united as equals in a great federation The highest five authorities are the patriarch of Constantinople or ecumenical patriarch whose position is not one of supremacy but of precedence th...


Eightieth

The next in order after seventy ninth...


Ennation

The ninth segment in insects...


Enneatic

Occurring once in every nine times days years etc every ninth...


Fiftieth

Next in order after the forty ninth the ordinal of fifty...


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