Preterition - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Preterition, the entire omission of a child's name in the father's will, which rendered it null-exhereda-tion being allowed, but not preterition, Civ. Law, Colquhoun, s. 1304....
Preterite
Same as Preterit...
Preteriteness
Same as Preteritness...
Preteritive
Used only or chiefly in the preterit or past tenses as certain verbs...
Ad terminum qui preterit
Ad terminum qui preterit, a writ of entry, which lay for a lessor or his heirs, where a lease of premises had been made for life or years, and after the term had expired the premises were withheld from the lessor or his heirs, by the tenant or other person in possession of them; but see now the titles, DOUBLE RENT and DOUBLE VALUE....
Preterit
Past applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past...
Preterition
The act of passing or going past the state of being past...
Preteritness
The quality or state of being past...
Preterperfect
Old name of the tense also called preterit...
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