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Preferred work
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bill
indictment sufficient to warrant prosecution : indictment 4 : an itemized account of goods sold, services performed, or work done 5 : a written instrument setting out the terms of a transaction involving goods: as a : … suit (as money owed by the plaintiff) and who has no interest in the subject matter and no preference as to which defendant prevails called also strict bill of interpleader compare bill in the nature of interpleader
Charities, or Public Trusts
learning, free schools, and scholars of universities; repairsof bridges, ports, havens, causeways, churches, sea-banks, and highways; education and preferment of orphans; the relief, stock, or maintenance of houses of correction; marriages of poor maids; supportation, aid, and … became a fixed maxim of civil law that legacies to pious uses (which included all legacies destined to works of charity, whether they related to spiritual or temporal concerns) were entitled to peculiar favour, and to be
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Marriage
& 7 Wm. 4, c. 86), above referred to. Marriage can also be solemnized, if the parties so prefer, by the registrar alone, after notice and certificate of license, at the registrar's office, according to the form … banns by the fault of one party in putting them up. And the requiring of consent not infrequently worked great evil and injustice; e.g., a marriage was dissolved after twenty-two-years' cohabitation and numerous issue by the husband
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