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County Councils

County Councils. The elective bodies established by the Local Government Act, 1888 (c. 41), to manage certain specified administrative business...

Denarius Dei, God's penny, or earnest given and received by parties to contracts, etc., paid in former times to the...

Electoral franchise. (1) The qualifications entitling persons to vote at Parliamentary elections. A brief sketch of the changes up to...

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Eleemosyna regis, and eleemosyna aratri, or carucarum, a penny which King Ethelred ordered to be paid for every plough in...

First fruits, an incident to the old feudal tenures, being one year's profits of the land after the death of...

Eleemosynary corporations, corporate bodies con-stituted for the perpetual distribution of the free alms or bounty of the founder of them....

Ex officio (officially; by virtue of office); e.g., justices of the peace were ex officio guardians of the poor. An...

Family, in relation to a person, includes the ascend-ant and descendant of such person. [Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976...

Faqueer, or fakir, a poor man, mendicant; a religious beggar, Indian.

Consolidation Acts (English). Acts by which several Acts upon the same subject are reduced into one. Of such a character...

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