Cyclopædia
Assuming land is required, the following 46 results were found.
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AGER Terréhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AGER%20Terré
Terré, in ancient writings, means an acre of land. See ACRE. AGER Terré
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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AFFIRMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIRMATION
the word stands opposed to Deforestation. See DEFORESTATION. The Conqueror, and his successors, continued afforesting the lands of the subject, for many reigns; till the grievance became so notorious, that the people, of all degrees and denominations,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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CHERSONESUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/CHERSONESUS
CHERSONESUS, in Geography, a Peninsula; or a Continent almost incompass'd round with the Sea, only joining to the main Land by a narrow Neck, or Isthmus. See PENINSULA. This Term is us'd by the Moderns, in Complaisance to the Antients, who call'd all...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geography
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APPROPRIATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPROPRIATE
so that the Parson receives the Tithes. See CHURCH, BENEFICE, PATRONAGE, PARSON, and TITHE. There are computed in England 3845 Churches Appropriate and Impropriate. See APPROPRIATION, IMPROPRIATION, etc. Appropriate ad Honores, in Law, signifies to...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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AD Quod Damnumhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AD%20Quod%20Damnum
MARKET, etc. The same writ also issues for an inquiry to be made of what the king or other person may suffer, by granting lands in fee-simple to a convent, chapter, or other body politic; because such land falls into mortmain, or a dead hand: that is,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ANCIENT DEMESNEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCIENT%20DEMESNE
etc., hereof were entered by the Conqueror in a Book called Domesday-Book, yet remaining in the Exchequer; so that such Lands as by that Book appeared to have belonged to the Crown at that time, are called Ancient Demesne. See DOMESDAY. The Tenants in...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified