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Notary or Notary Public

writings to make them authentic in another country; but is principally employed in mercantile affairs, as to make protests of bills of exchange, etc. He cannot permit another to act in his name, and in London he

Obtest

Obtest, to call solemnly upon, to adjure; to protest.

Papist

communion of the Church of Rome, maintains the supreme ecclesiastical power of the Pope, as contradistinguished from English Protestants who in Statutes, Canons, and the 36th Article of Religion maintain the supreme ecclesiastical power of the sovereign.

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Persuasion

gives the meaning of 'persuasion' among others (a) as 'a system of religious or other beliefs (the several protestants.......); (b) a group, faction, sect, or party that adheres to a particular system of beliefs or ideas or

Westminster confession

confession, a document containing a statement of religious doctrine drawn up at a conference of British and Continental Protestant divines at Westminster in the year 1643, which subsequently became the basis of the Scotch Presbyterian Church.

Bill of Exchange

S. C. Ord. III., r. 6, and Ord. XIV. See also BANKER'S DRAFT; CHEQUE; NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS; PROMISSORY NOTES PROTEST; NOTE A BILL, TO; INCHOATE. Includes a hundi and a cheque. [The Limitation Act, 1963 (36 of 1963),

Prerogative of mercy

(479, 480). The anomaly of pardoning either an innocent or guilty man on the ground of his innocence, protested against by Lord Denman, L.C.J., and Parke and Alderson, BB., before a Select Committee of the House of

Presbyterian Church of England

Presbyterian Church of England, a Protestant Church constituted under the 'Book or Order' of that Church.

Presbyterians

do not acknowledge the authority of bishops. In England the term 'Presbyterian' originally designated a distinct body of Protestant Dissenters. The Presbyterian form of worship was established in England during the Commonwealth, and when the Presbyterian ministers

Representation

964. Representation, is a description, account or state-ment of facts or arguments intended to influence action or make protest, Webster American Dictionary, p. 1235. Representation, means a statement regarding a fact, A Dictionary of Law, Willium C.

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