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Overlook

view from a higher position to be situated above so as to command a view of as to overlook a valley from a hill a hotel room that overlooks the marketplace

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Episcopacy

Episcopacy [fr. Gk.], the office of overlooking or overseeing; the office of a bishop who is to overlook and oversee the concerns of the church.

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Ignoratio elenchi

Ignoratio elenchi, an overlooking of the adversary's counterposition in an argument. Means ignorance of the conclusion to be proved. An advocate's misunderstanding

Embraceor

and speaks in the case; or privately labours the jury, or stands in the Court to survey and overlook them, whereby they are awed or influenced, or put in fear or doubt of the matter, 19 Hen.

Sewer

and Chief Justices, pursuant to the Statute of Sewers (23 Hen. 8, c. 5). Their jurisdiction is to overlook the repairs of the banks and walls of the sea-coast and navigable rivers; or, with consent of a

Plead over

Plead over, to follow up an opponent's pleading by replying, etc., and so overlooking some defect to which exception might have been taken.

Land-steward

Land-steward, a person who overlooks or has the management of a farm or estate

Land-reeve

Land-reeve, a person whose business is to overlook certain parts of a farm or estate; to attend not only to the woods and hedge-timber, but also

Improper acceptance

apparent on the electoral roll itself or on the face of the nomination paper and the Returning Officer overlooked that defect or if any objection was raised and enquiry made as to the absence of qualification in

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