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Priory

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A priori

A priori. All arguments may be divided, according to the relation of the subject-matter of the premises to that of

Lex posterior derogat priori

Lex posterior derogat priori [Lat.], a later Act takes away the effect of an earlier one.

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Omnis ratihabitio retrotrahitur et mandato priori 'quiparatur

Omnis ratihabitio retrotrahitur et mandato priori 'quiparatur. Co. Litt. 207, (Every consent given to what has been already done has a retrospective effect, and

Commandery

or house was styled the commander, who could not dispose of it but to the use of the priory, only taking thence his own sustenance, according to his degree. The manors and lands belonging to the priory

Prioress

A lady superior of a priory of nuns and next in dignity to an abbess

Convent

Convent, the fraternity of an abbey or priory, as societas is the number of fellows in a college. More generally applied to a sisterhood of religious

Merton, Statute of

c. 4, A.D. 1235), the first Act of Parliament passed, so called because it was enacted at the Priory of Merton, in Surrey, about nine miles from London. Its principal unrepealed provisions (1) allow the inclosure or

Prestimony, or Pr'stimonia

founder for the subsistence of a priest, without being erected into any title or benefice, chapel, prebend, or priory. It is not subject to the ordinary; but of it the patron, and those who have a right

Neocriticism

idealists following C Renouvier It rejects the noumena of Kant restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories

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