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Deed

signed, sealed, and delivered. It is either an indenture (factum inter partes) needing an actual indentation [(English) Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 5], reproduced by the Law of Property Act, 1925,

Customary freeholds

Customary freeholds have been converted into 'socage tenure' by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922, s. 189, see COPYHOLD. Owing to its historical intrest the following note has been preserved unaltered

Curate

Curate [fr. Curator, Lat.], is a term properly applied to one who has the cure of souls, namely, the incumbent of a parish. The incumbent may

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Common Law

declared by our judges, who are the sworn depositaries and interpreters of our law. This Common Law is properly distinguished into three kinds: (1) General customs, or those applicable to and governing the whole kingdom, comprehending the

Hexylene

and found as a natural product of distillation of certain coals also any one several isomers of hexylene proper Called also hexene

Improperly

In an improper manner not properly unsuitably unbecomingly

Humanist

One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their

Hypallage

A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to others Thus Virgil says ldquodare classibus austrosrdquo to give the winds to the fleets instead of

Hypocarp

A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle or for the stem below the proper fruit as in the cashew See Illust of Cashew

Iatrochemistry

in the school of physicians in Flanders in the 17th century who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or