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Powdikes
Powdikes, an ancient dyke or embankment to keep out the fen waters. Destroying them in the fens of Norfolk and Ely is felony by 22 Hen. 8, c. 11.
Perpetuity
it restricted, beyond any number of lives in being [whether interested or not is quite immaterial [Duke of Norfolk's Case, 3 Cha Ca 1; 33 Car. 2, called 'the Case of Perpetuities'; and Stephens v. Stephens, Ca
Peer
cannot surrender his dignity to the king so as to affect the rights of his descendants therein (The Norfolk Earldom, 1907, AC 10). See Jac. Law Dict.; Co. Litt. 160. Under the rule, established by Magna Charta,
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Land-tax
four shillings, which former maximum it had reached or approached in more than one agricultural county, such as Norfolk, Essex, Lincolnshire, and Suffolk. The sum fixed by the (English) Land Tax Act, 1797 (38 Geo. 3, c.
Bedford level
Bedford level, a tract of fenny land in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Northampton, and Lincoln, drained by the Earl of Bedford in 1649. By the (English) Bedford
Earl Marshal of England
has been since 1672 hereditary in the family of the Howards, the present holder being the Duke of Norfolk, 3 Steph. Com.
Domesday, or domesday-book
Westmorland, Durham, and part of Lancashire, which it is said, were never surveyed; and excepting Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, which three last are comprehended in the lesser volume. There is also a third book, which differs from
Chancel
and as to propertyin a chancel generally, see Champman v. Jones, (1869) LR 4 Ex 273; Duke of Norfolk v. Arbuthnot, (1880) 5 CPD 390. For the liability to repair a chacel, see the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure,
Catchland
Catchland. Land in Norfolk, so called because it is not known to what parish it belongs, and the minister who first seizes
Australia, Commonwealth of.
South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania, and Western Australia in a federal Commonwealth comprising also Papua, the Northern Territory, and Norfolk, Ashmore and Cantier Island in the Pacific (and see MANDATED TERRITORIES), with a Constitution enabling its Parliament, consisting
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