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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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