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accusation against one or more persons of a crime formerly preferred to and presented upon oath by a grand jury. Grand

preferential 1 : of or constituting a preference [a transfer] 2

Deferred stock. Stock in a company is frequently divided into 'preferred,' the holders of which are entitled to a fixed...

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Exhausted paper, means a ballot paper on which no further preference is recorded for a continuing candidate; provided that a paper

(7) That in collateral inheritances the male stocks shall be preferred to the female (that is, kindred derived from the blood

and established it as a common assurance. For it was preferable to a bargain and sale, and to a covenant to

Pari passu [Lat.], means 'with equal steps, equally, without preference' (Jowitts's Dictionary, Vol. II, 1959 Edn., p. 1294), International Coach

Valor beneficiorum, the value of every ecclesiastical benefice and preferment, according to which the first-fruits and tenths are collected and

the tenth part of the annual value of every spiritual preferment, paid in early times to the pope, transferred from the

writ to provide the king's chaplain, if he had no preferment, with a pension, Reg. Brev. 165, 307.

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