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Begar

Begar, It is a word of Indian origin which like many other words has found its way in the English vocabulary. It is very difficult to

to the position and functions of the bank in modern times, consult Bagehot's 'Lombard Street.' As to its origin, see Macaulay's Hist. Of England, ch. Xx.; Hall. Const. Hist., ch. xv.; and for the original Charter, see

Banco

a river's course especially land that has become cut off in such a manner from the country it originally belonged to, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 139. Banco [Ital.]. see BANC. A seat or bench of

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Base fee

sense, a base fee was until 1926 a fee simple determinable on the failure of issue of an original donee of the estate in tail. It was limited by the failure of the heirs of the body

palimpsest

ecclesiastical texts such as copies of church services and lives of the saints The difficulty of recovering the original text varied with the process used to prepare the parchment for a fresh writing the original texts on

Allowance

are termed are distinguished by the epithets draft, tare, tret, and cloff. Draft is a deduction from the original or gross weight of goods, and is substracted before the tare is taken off. Tare is an allowance

Aids

Aids [fr. aides, Fr.; auxlia, Lat.], originally mere benevolences granted by a tenant to his lord in times of distress, but at length the lords

Abstract of title

otherwise), and delivers it to the solicitor of the proposed purchaser or mortgagee, who compares it with the original title-deeds, and makes requisitions (when necessary), in order to ascertain any important but undisclosed facts, to remedy any

Primordial

First in order primary original of earliest origin as primordial condition

Primitive

Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin or to early times original primordial primeval first as primitive innocence the primitive church

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