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Lady [fr. h'f dig,Sax., loaf-day, which words have in time been contracted into the present appellation]. It was the fashion...

Literary and Scientific Institutions Act, 1854 (English) (17 & 18 Vict. c. 112), as amended, affords facilities for procuring and...

Local taxes, those assessments which were limited to certain districts, as poor rate, parochial taxes, county rates, etc. (7 &...

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Lodging houses, common. The term is defined in the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, s. 235, as 'meaning a house...

Lord [fr. hlaford, laford, lord, Sax., hlaf, a loaf of bread, and ford, to give, because such great men kept...

Maintenance, an officious intermeddling in a suit which in no wise concerns one, by assisting either party with money or...

Mandati, Panes de, loaves of bread given to the poor upon Maundy Thursday.

Parish [fr. parochia, Low Lat.; paroisse Fr., fr. porik'a Gk., habitation], the particular charge of a secular priest. Parochia est...

Married women's property, At Common Law, a woman, by marrying, transferred the ownership of all her property, real and personal,...

Merit, 'Merit' consists of a high degree of intelligence coupled with a keen and incisive mind, sound knowledge of the...

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