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  • AUBAINEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AUBAINE

    in the French Customs, the act of inheriting after a Foreigner, who dies in a Country where he is not naturalized. The Word is form’d of aubain, a Foreigner; which Menage derives further from the Latin, Alibi natus; Cujas, from Advena; du Cange from...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • ASSIGNEEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSIGNEE

    is he whom the Law so makes without any Appointment of the Person.—Thus, an Executor is Assignee in Law to the Testator, who dies possessed of a Lease made to him and his Assigns. See EXECUTOR, TESTATOR, etc. ASSIGNEE

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • ASSURANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSURANCE

    for Houses, others for Goods; and some for both. We have also Assurances for Life, in Virtue whereof, when the Person assured dies, a Sum of Money becomes payable to the Person in whose Favour the Policy of Assurance was given. See ANNUITY, &c....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • ADMINISTRATORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADMINISTRATOR

    of the goods of the deceased, and no further, unless there be waste or other abuse chargeable on him. If the Administrator dies, his Executors are not administrators; but the court is to grant a new administration.If a stranger, who is neither...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • AD Quod Damnumhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AD%20Quod%20Damnum

    service of court, and escheats, upon any traitorous or felonious offense committed by the tenant: for that a body politic dies not, nor can perform personal service to the king or their mesne lords;as single persons may do. See MORTMAIN. AD Quod Damnum

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • Architecturehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture

    ARCHITECTURE, including die Construction of BUILDINGS ; as House, Temple, Church, Hall, Palace, Theatre, &c. Ship, Galley, Galleon, Ark, Buccentaur, Boat, &c. Pyramid, Mausoleum, Pantheon, &c. Capitol, Seraglio, Escurial, &c. Arch, Vault, Bridge,...

    • Type: Category

  • ANGELhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGEL

    a Mountain with a single Feather of his Wing, etc. The Angel Azrael, they suppose, appointed to take the Souls of such as die; and another Angel, named Israfil, stands with the Trumpet ready in his Mouth to proclaim the Day of Judgment. See QURAN,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANNUALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNUAL

    etc. Annual Plants, called also simply annuals; are such as only live their Year, i.e., come up in the Spring, and die again in Autumn: And accordingly are to be recruited every Year. See PLANT. Annuals stand contradistinguished from Biennials,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALKACHESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKACHEST

    or Alcahest, in Chemistry, a universal Menstruum or Dissolvent, wherewith some Chemists have pretended to resolve all Bodies into their first Matter. See MENSTRUUM, DISSOLVENT, MATTER, &c. Those two eminent Adepts, Paracelsus and Helmont, expressly...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chymistry

  • AULAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AULA

    in our ancient Law-Books, signifies a Court Baron.—Aula ibidem tenta quarto die Augusti, etc. See BARON. Aula Ecclesiae is what we now call Navis Ecclesiae. See NAVE. AULA

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • ADEPTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADEPTS

    always twelve Adepts; and that their places are immediately supplied by others whenever it pleases any of the Fraternity to die, or to transmigrate to some other place, where they may make use of their gold; for in this wicked world, it will scarcely...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANNUITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNUITY

    Halley, in his Observations on the Breslau Bills of Mortality, shows that it is 80 to 1 a Person of 25 Years of Age does not die in a Year; that it is 52 to one, a Man of 40 lives 7 Years; and that one of 30 may reasonably expect to live 27 or 28 Years....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ASTRAGALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ASTRAGAL

    in Chaplets, or Beads and Berries, It is also used both above and below the Lists, adjoining immediately to the Squares or Die of the Pedestal. See DYE and PEDESTAL. The Word is derived from the Greek ἀστράγαλος, which signifies the ankle or Ankle-Bone....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Anatomy

  • ATTENDANThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTENDANT

    a penny; and the mesne hold over by two pence: If the mesne releases to the tenant all his right in the land, and the tenant die, his wife shall be endowed of the land, and shall be attendant to the heir, of the third part of the penny, not of the third...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law
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