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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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