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Mothering

Mothering, a custom of visiting parents on Mid-Lent Sunday, Jac. Law Dict

of occupation. Even if a landlord is serving outside or living with his near relations but makes casual visits to his house and thus retains control over the entire or a portion of the property, he would

Official solicitor

the (English) Court of Chancery Act, 1860 (20 & 23 Vict. c. 149), s. 2, the duty of visiting prisoners committed for contempt, and he may be assigned as solicitor to pauper litigants, and acts as guardian

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Ordinary

jurisdiction in causes ecclesiastical. Also, a bishop: and an archbishop is the ordinary of the whole province, to visit and receive appeals from inferior jurisdictions. Also, a commissary or official of a bishop or other ecclesiastical judge

Pascha rents

Pascha rents, yearly tributes paid by the clergy to the bishop or archdeacon at their Easter visitations.

Quasi-solitary confinement

confinement, but partial. In Sunil Batra's case the accused was locked up in a small cell. He was visited by guards and prison officals. A few callers were allowed to meet him once in a blue moon.

Resides

(1954) SCR 919. [Registration Act, 1908, s. 33(1)(a)] (ii) The expression 'resides' implied something more than a brief visit but not such continuity as to amount to a domicile, Jagir Kaur v. Jaswant Singh, AIR 1963 SC

Summer-hus silver

Summer-hus silver, a payment to the lords of the wood on the Wealds of Kent, who used to visit those places in summer, when their under-tenants were bound to prepare little summer-houses for their reception, or else

Bishop

of the revenues thereof, gained on confirmation. He has, also, a Consistory Court, to hear ecclesiastical causes, and visits and superintends the clergy of his diocese. He consecrates churches and institutes priests, confirms, suspends, excommunicates, and grants

Black death

Black death, the great pestilence which visited England and other parts of Europe about the middle of the fourteenth century.

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