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being an object of tenure, was therefore exempt from the oppressive burdens of the feudal system. It was not forfeitable for

relics of Saxon liberty, which were left untouched by the oppressive hand of the Norman. Included among free socage tenures were

perfectly normal at one time have today become obnoxious and oppressive to public conscience. If there is no head of public

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Oppression, the trampling upon or bearing down a person, under pretence

Such grants were common before the Stuarts, and were very oppressive and injurious during the reign of Elizabeth. The grievance became

Grievous to be borne causing uneasiness or fatigue oppressive

in 1645. So perfectly hopeless was the renewal of this oppressive system at the restoration of the second Charles, that the

or tribute The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions and were regarded with great detestation

is right, just and fair and not arbitrary, fanciful or oppressive, Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administration AIR 1978 SC 1675: (1979)

burden to free from a load borne or from something oppressive to unload to disencumber to relieve

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being an object of tenure, was therefore exempt from the oppressive burdens of the feudal system. It was not forfeitable for

relics of Saxon liberty, which were left untouched by the oppressive hand of the Norman. Included among free socage tenures were

perfectly normal at one time have today become obnoxious and oppressive to public conscience. If there is no head of public

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