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Recessed
Having a recess or recesses as a recessed arch or wall
Adjourn
Adjourn, to recess or postpone, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 42. Adjourn applies to the action of a deliberative body
Penetralia
The recesses or innermost parts of any thing or place especially of a temple or palace
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bosomy
Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows
Chiltern hundreds
appointment of another holder. Acceptance vacates the seat of the member. The office can be granted during a recess, but the statutory power of the Speaker for the issue of a writ during recess to fill up
Reliction
Reliction, the sudden recession of the sea from land. See DERELICT LANDS. A process by which a river or stream shifts its
Reliction
A leaving dry a recession of the sea or other water leaving dry land land left uncovered by such recession
Writs for the election of Members of Parliament
of Members of Parliament. The Speaker of the House of Commons is empowered to issue warrants, during any recess of the House, for making out new writs for the election of persons in the room of members
High Steward, Court of the Lord
right of his peerage. But in the Court of the Lord High Steward, which is held in the recess of Parliament, he is the sole judge of matters of law, as the lords triers are in matters
Semidome
A roof or ceiling covering a semicircular room or recess or one of nearly that shape as the apse of a church a niche or the like It
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