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Benefit of clergy

Benefit of clergy [privilegium clericale, Lat.], an arrest of judgment in criminal cases. The origin of it was this: Princes...

to beat], beating and wounding. This, in law, includes every touching or laying hold, however trifling, of another's person or clothes,

till the condition be performed, Co. Litt. 36 a; Shep. Touch. P. 58; London Property Co. v. Suffield, (1897) 2 Ch

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Assise of the forest, a statute touching orders to be observed in the king's forest, Manwood, 35.

were forbidden to bring or to defend any real action, touching their tenements, except in the lord's Court. in ancient demesne

lie safely with her full cargo and discharge it without touching the ground (Halsb. Laws of England).

and sincerely affirm and declare as follows' [or 'that as touching the matters in question I will speak the truth, the

Abut [fr. aboutir, Fr., to touch at the end], to border upon or approach.

that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch not rough as smooth glass smooth porcelain

or pass something over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals to skip

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