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  • ADULTERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADULTERY

    Adulterium, in our ancient law-books called Advowtry, a crime committed by married persons, against the faith pledged to each other in marriage; by having carnal commerce with someone else: or even by a person not married; by having to do with another...

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

  • ATTAINDERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTAINDER

    is when a man has committed felony, or treason, and judgment is passed upon him. See FELONY and TREASON. The children of a person attainted of treason cannot be heirs to him, or any other ancestor; and if he were noble before, his posterity are hereby...

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

  • AIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AID

    or Aide, Auxilium, literally denotes the Help, Succor, or Assistance, which any Person lends another when too weak to do, or avoid something. See ASSISTANT. The Word is French, formed, according to M. Menage, from the Italian Aiutare; and that from the...

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

  • ACCOUNThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCOUNT

    OF ACCOUNT; see also POUND, etc. Account is also a relative term used in respect to a company or society when two or more persons have received or disbursed for each other; or when this has been done by their order or commission. See COMPANY,...

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

  • ARTICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTICLE

    eighth and ninth Articles of the Treaty of Munster. Articles of the Clergy, Articuli Cleri, are certain Statutes touching Persons and Causes ecclesiastical, made under Edward II, and III. Article of Faith, is some Point of Christian Doctrine which we...

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

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

    See SECURITY. ASSURANCE, Or INSURANCE, in Commerce. See INSURANCE. Policy of ASSURANCE, is a Contract whereby one or more Persons oblige themselves to make good any Damages which a Ship, a House, or the like, may undergo, by Sea, Fire, or the like...

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

  • ADDICTIOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADDICTIO

    It is formed from Addico, one of the stated words used by the Roman judges when they allowed the delivery of the thing or person on whom judgment had passed. Hence, goods thus adjudged by the Praetor to the right owner were called Bona addita; and...

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

  • ASTRONOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMY

    ASTRONOMY. THEORETICAL ASTRONOMY. See ASTRONOMY. The Invention of Astronomy has been variously assigned; and several Persons, several Nations, and several Ages have laid claim to it—From the Accounts given us by the ancient Historians, it appears that...

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

  • ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES

    But this Piece of History is controverted by the Authors of the Mem. de Trevoux; having been made use of, it seems, by some Persons, to show that the Church has been mistaken in its Decisions The only Account extant of the matter, upon which the...

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

  • ANABAPTISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANABAPTISTS

    fathers it on Thomas Münzer, or rather Müncer, of Zwickau, a City of Misnia; and Nich. Storck, of Stalberg in Saxony; two Persons originally Disciples of Luther, from whom they took occasion to separate, on seeing that his Doctrine was not perfect...

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

  • ALLIANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLIANCE

    the Union or Connection of two Persons, or two Families, by means of Marriage; called also Affinity. See MARRIAGE, and AFFINITY. The Law of the Twelve Tables forbids all Alliance between Persons of unequal Rank and Condition. —And in Portugal, we are...

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

  • ATTACHIAMENTA BONORUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTACHIAMENTA%20BONORUM

    BONORUM, in our ancient law books, denotes a distress taken upon the goods or chattels of any person, sued for personal estate, or debt, by the legal attachiators or bailiffs, as a security to answer the action.

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

  • ANGARIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ANGARIA

    any troublesome, or vexatious Duty or Service, paid by the Tenant to the Lord.—The Word is formed of the French Angarie, Personal Service; that which a Man is bound to perform in his own Person.—Prestationes Angariarum & Periangariarum plaustrorum &...

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

  • ACCEPTORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCEPTOR

    ACCEPTOR, of a bill of exchange, the person who accepts the bill. See ACCEPTANCE. The acceptor becomes a personal debtor by the acceptance; and is obliged to pay it, though the drawer fails before it becomes due. See EXCHANGE. ACCEPTOR

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

  • ADOLESCENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADOLESCENCE

    Adolescencia, the state of youth;or that period of a person's age commencing from his infancy, and terminating at his full growth. See AGE. The state of Adolescence lasts so long as the fibers continue to grow, either in magnitude or firmness. See...

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

  • ADVOWEEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVOWEE

    GUARDIAN, etc. It appears also, from the most ancient charters, that the donations made to Churches, were conferred on the persons of the Advowees. They always pleaded the causes of the Churches in court, and distributed justice for them, in the places...

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

  • AUDITORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDITORY

    belonging to the sense of hearing. See HEARING. AUDITORY, AUDIENCE, is also a collective name, denoting an assembly of persons, hearing, or attending to a person who speaks in public. See ASSEMBLY, ORATION, etc. AUDITORY is also used for the seat or...

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

  • AUGURhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AUGUR

    form conjectures about future events. See AUGURY. The augurs made a college or community, which at first consisted of three persons, then four, and lastly nine; four of them patricians, and five plebeians.—Cicero was of the college of augurs. See...

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

  • ANECDOTEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANECDOTES

    Affairs and Transactions of Princes; speaking with too much Freedom, or too much Sincerity, of the Manner and Conduct of Persons in Authority, to allow of being made public. Herein they imitate Procopius, who gives this Title to a Book which he...

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

  • ARCHIMIMEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHIMIME

    Archimimus, is the same thing, ineffect, with arch-buffoon. The archimimes, among the Romans, were persons whoimitated the manners, gestures, and speech both of theliving and the dead. See MIME. At first they were only employed on the theatre; but...

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