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Home Dictionary Name: squireSquire
Squire, contraction of 'esquire.' See ESQUIRE....
Dum casta vixerit
Dum casta vixerit (so long as she shall live chaste). In deeds of separation of husband and wife, it is not uncommonly provided that the allowance thereby insured by the husband to the wife shall continue only so long as she shall live a chaste life. This proviso is termed the 'dum casta clause.' As to the insertion of such a clause when the Court, in decreeing a dissolution of marriage, orders the husband to make an allowance to the wife, see Squire v. Squire, 1905, P. 4....
esquire
esquire [Middle French escuier squire, from Late Latin scutarius shield bearer, from Latin scutum shield] used as a title of courtesy for lawyers usually placed in its abbreviated form after the name and capitalized [John R. Smith Esq.] [Jane L. Smith Esq.] ...
Booted
Wearing boots especially boots with long tops as for riding as a booted squire...
Donzel
A young squire or knights attendant a page...
Esquire
Originally a shield bearer or armor bearer an attendant on a knight in modern times a title of dignity next in degree below knight and above gentleman also a title of office and courtesy often shortened to squire...
VerbarJunker
A young German noble or squire esp a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia...
Berghmoth, or Berghmote
Berghmoth, or Berghmote [fr. berg, Sax., a hill, and gemote, an assembly], an assembly or Court upon a hill, held in Derbyshire, for deciding pleas and controversies among the miners, Squire on Anglo-Saxon Government....
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