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Cameronians

Scotland. They disowned altogether the King's authority and that of the Government, and renounced the title of all pretenders to the throne who would not subscribe to the Solemn League and Covenant and govern according to its

Bracery

Bracery, means the offence of selling pretended rights or titled to land. This practice was outlawed by statute of 32 Hen 8 Ch & 9,

Abjuration

to be taken by every person entering upon any public office or trust. By this he renounced the Pretender (the son of James II.) and recognized the right of Her Majesty, under the Act of Settlement (q.v.),

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Mancipation

hold of a thing and arresting title to it before five witnesses, followed by weighing the real or pretended purchase money on scales, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 972.

Namium vetitium

Namium vetitium, an unjust taking of the cattle of another and driving them to an unlawful place, pretending damage done by them, 3 Bl. Com. 149, see REPLEVIN.

Mandate

was given up by Edward I. And 1 W. & M. st. 2, c. 2, declares that the pretended power of suspending or dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by real authority, without consent of

Marriage

and wilfully consent to or acquiesce in the person not in holy orders.' As to marriage by a pretended clergyman, Sir William Scott, afterwards Lord Stowell, in Hawke v. Corri, (1820) 2 Hagg Cons 288, says: 'It

Palmistry

Palmistry, the practice of telling the character, and assuming to foretell the future, by inspection of the hands. Pretending to tell fortunes or deceiving 'by palmistry or otherwise' renders the palmist liable to conviction as a rogue

Plus valet quod agitur quam quod simulate concipitur

Plus valet quod agitur quam quod simulate concipitur, (What is done more avails than what is pretended to be done.)

Quack

knowledge of a particular system of medicine but practises in that system is a quack and a mere pretender to medical knowledge or skill, or to put it differently, a charlatan, Poonam Verma v. Ashwin Patel, AIR

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