Posterity - Law Dictionary Search Results
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posterity 1 : all of the lineal descendants of a person 2 : all future generations ...
Posterity
The race that proceeds from a progenitor offspring to the furthest generation the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation descendants contrasted with ancestry as the posterity of Abraham...
Posterity
Posterity, succeeding generations, descendants, opposed to ancestry....
Billposter
One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places...
eye catching
Seizing the attention as eye catching posters as she wore an eye catching low cut gown...
Four poster
A large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support a canopy or curtains...
Guttersnipe
A small poster suitable for a curbstone...
Moabite
One of the posterity of Moab the son of Lot Gen xix 37 Also used adjectively...
Poster
A large bill or placard intended to be posted in public places...
Esquire
Esquire [fr. escuyer, Fr.; scutum, Lat.; Gk., hide of which shields were made and afterwards covered], he who attended a knight in time of war, and carried his shield; whence he was called escuyer, in French, and scutifer or armiger, i.e., armour-bearer, in Latin. No estate, however large, conferred this rank upon its owner.Esquires may be divided into five classes:(I) The younger sons of peers and their eldest sons in perpetual succession.(II) The eldest sons of knights and their eldest sons in like successiorr.(III) The chiefs of ancient families are esquires by prescription.(IV) Esquires by creation or office. Such are the heralds and serjeants-at-arms, and some others, who are constituted esquires by receiving a collar of S.S. Judges and other offices of state, justices of the peace, and the higher naval and military officers are designated esquires in their patents and commissions. Doctors in the several faculties, and barristers-at-law, are also esquires. None of these offices co...
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