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Poor laws

a central board called 'The Poor Law Commissioners'; succeeded in 1847 by a temporary 'Poor Law Board' made perpetual, after many continuances, in 1867; and in 1871, by 'The (English) Local Government Board Act, 1871,' superseded by

Piracy

pirate, or boarding a merchant ship and destroying her goods (8 Geo. 1, c. 24, s. 1, made perpetual by 2 Geo. 2, c. 28). As to piracy, see 13 & 14 Vict. cc. 26, 27. As

Physician

which incorporated the physicians. By 14 & 15 Hen. 8, c. 5, this charter was confirmed, and a perpetual college of physicians established with a constitution of eight elects, etc. The subsequent history of the college is

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Perpetua lex est, nullam legem humanam ac positivam perpetuam esse; et clausula qu' abrogationem excludit, ab initio non valet

Perpetua lex est, nullam legem humanam ac positivam perpetuam esse; et clausula qu' abrogationem excludit, ab initio non valet.

Parson

glebe, the tithes, and other dues. But these are sometimes appropriated, that is to say, the benefice is perpetually annexed to some spiritual corporation, either sole or aggregate, being the patron of the living; which the law

Drunkenness

amended by the Inebriates Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. C. 19), which made the Act of 1879 perpetual, and the (English) Inebriates Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 60). The Act of 1879 defines an

Indissolvable

Not dissolvable incapable of being dissolved or separated incapable of separation perpetually firm and binding indissoluble as an indissolvable bond of union

Desertion

of marriage which in law legalises the sexual relationship between man and woman in the society for the perpetuation of race, permitting lawful indulgence in passion to prevent licentiousness and for procreation of children, Savitri Pandey v.

Bulimia

A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food a diseased and voracious appetite

Remontant

Rising again applied to a class of roses which bloom more than once in a season the hybrid perpetual roses of which the Jacqueminot is a well known example

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