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Uncertainty
as if one bequeath 'some of his property' to A., or all his property, 'to one of his sons.'
Communi custodia
Communi custodia, an obsolete writ which anciently lay for the lord, whose tenant, holding by knight's service, died, and left his eldest son under age, against a stranger that entered the land, and obtained the ward...
Compassing
Compassing [fr. compasser, Fr., to encircle, con, with, and passus, a step, Lat.], imagining or contriving. To compass or imagine the death of the king, of his queen, or of their eldest son and heir is...
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Consanguineus frater
Consanguineus frater, a brother by the father's side; in contradistinction to frater uterinus, the son of the same mother.
Copyright
Copyright, an incorporeal right, being the exclusive privilege of printing, reprinting, selling, and publishing is own original work which the statute law first gave to an author in 1709, by 8 Anne, c. 19, for the...
Coronare filium
Coronare filium, to make one's son a priest. Homo Coronatus was one who had received the first tonsure, as preparatory to superior orders, and the tonsure was in form of a corona, or crown of thorns,...
Denizen
Denizen [fr. donaison, donison, O.Fr., a gift], an alien born who has obtained, ex donatione regis, letters-patent to make him (either permanently or for a time) an English subject. The granting of such letters-patent is a...
Dependant and dependent
Dependant and dependent. Under s. 4 of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925:-- (1) The dependants of a workman entitled to claim compensation under this Act where the injury results in death are such of the members...
Filiation
Filiation [fr. filius, Lat.], the relation of a son of his father; correlative to paternity. See AFFILIATION.
Establish
Establish, The meaning of the word 'establish' as given in the New Collins Concise Dictionary, 1983 edn., is: 'I. to make secure or permanent in a certain place, condition, job etc. 2. to create or set...
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