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Power

a mode of ownership. By a particular power it is meant that the donee is restricted to some objects designated in the instrument creating the power, as to his own children. A power is expounded strictly; therefore,

Perpetuity

be validated by the happening of any event subsequently to its creation. When a limitation might have included objects too remote it is invalid, notwithstanding the objects may actually be ascertained within the verge of the rule.

Ownership

transmit it to others. Ownership is de jure recognition of a claim to certain property. Possession is the objective realisation ownership. It is the de facto exercise of a claim to certain property and a de facto

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Civil Law

The Institutes, in which the elements of jurisprudence are disposed in a didactic form; its chief and leading objects are explained in a regular series, and the whole arranged in such a way as neither to oppress

Confirmation of Bishop

which the Court of four judges was equally divided in discharging a rule for a mandamus to hear objections, on the ground of heterodoxy, to the confirmation of Dr. Hampden, as Bishop of Hereford. Since then objection

Begging

for the purpose of soliciting or receiving alms, whether under any pretence; (ii) exposing or exhibiting with the object of obtaining or extorting alms, any sore, wound, injury, deformity or disease, whether of himself or of any

Cyclorama

A pictorial view which is extended circularly so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature The realistic effect is increased by putting in the space between the

Hypnotism

nerves through the medium of the senses by causing the subject to gaze steadily at a very bright object held before the eyes or on an oscillating object or by pressure upon certain points of the surface

VerbarHyperopia

the refractive media the rays of light come to a focus behind the retina making vision for distant objects better than for near objects farsightedness called also hypermetropia Cf Emmetropia

VerbarHypermetropia

the refractive media the rays of light come to a focus behind the retina making vision for distant objects better than for near objects farsightedness now most commonly called hyperopia Cf Emmetropia

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