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Adjourn

Adjourn, to recess or postpone, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 42. Adjourn applies to the action of a deliberative body

Confessional

The recess seat or inclosed place where a priest sits to hear confessions often a small structure furnished with a

bosomy

Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows

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Bedsite

A recess in a room for a bed

Reliction

A leaving dry a recession of the sea or other water leaving dry land land left uncovered by such recession

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

Niche

A cavity hollow or recess generally within the thickness of a wall for a statue bust or other erect ornament Hence any similar

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

Civil Law

civilized being; it embodies so much thought, reflection, experience, and labour; it leads us so far into the recesses of antiquity, and it has stood so long against the waves and weathers of time, that it is

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