Universal Technological Dictionary: Or, Familiar Explanations of the Terms Used in All Arts and Sciences, Volumen2

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Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823

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Página 11 - Barons' eldest sons. Knights of the Garter. Privy Councillors. Chancellor of the Exchequer. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench. Master of the Rolls.
Página 12 - Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong.
Página 18 - The lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done, had he been living.
Página 8 - Consanguinity, or kindred, is defined by the writers on these subjects to be vinculum personarum ab eodem stipite descendentium: the connection or relation of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor. This consanguinity is either lineal or collateral. "Lineal consanguinity is that which subsists between persons, of whom one is descended in a direct line...
Página 17 - An heir, therefore, is he upon whom the law casts the estate immediately on the death of the ancestor: and an estate, so descending to the heir, is in law called the inheritance.
Página 17 - Tenant at will is, where lands or tenements are let by one man to another, to have and to hold to him at the will of the lessor, by force of which lease the lessee is in possession.

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