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Intermediaries holding an estate

estate, in order to be an intermediary with reference to the merged territories means a maufidar including the ruler of an Indian State merged with the State of Orissa, a Zamindar, Ilaqueder, Khorposhdar or Jagirdar simpliciter but

Sovereign

shillings; see Coinage Act, 1870. 1. A person, body, or state vested with independent and Supreme authority 2. Ruler of an independent state, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1401. The term sovereign means a political superior

Magister

eminence in a particular filed of learning, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 161. Means a master or ruler; a person who has attained to some eminent degree in science.

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Prince

Prince [fr. princeps, Latt.], a sovereign; a chief ruler of either sex. 'Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex for her princely virtues, Camden.

Privy purse

purse, is the sum fixed by the Government of India for covering the expenses of each of the rulers of former Indian States and their families in consideration of their agreement of merger in the Indian Union,

Protectorate

of protector; (3) territories placed under the protection of the British sovereign generally by treaty with the native ruler or chiefs administered on the same lines as Crown Colonies (Hals. L.E., tit. 'Dependencies, Colonies and British Possessions).

Rebellion

the process of the courts. See next title. Open, organised, and armed resistance to an established government or ruler, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1273.

Ruling Chief

Ruling Chief, the expression 'Ruling Chief' has not been defined in the Act and must therefore by understood as in common parlance. The meaning of the word 'ruler' as given in Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd...

Regulus

A petty king a ruler of little power or consequence

Thanage of the King

Thanage of the King, a certain part of the king's land or property, of which the ruler or governor was called 'thane.'-Cowel

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