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  • ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION

    land but damages also—And the like in Action of Waste, Quare Impedit, etc. See ASSIZE, etc. Actions are also divided into Civil and Penal.—Civil Action is that which only tends to the recovery of what, by reason of a contract, or other like cause, is a...

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

  • Vice-ADMIRALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/Vice-ADMIRAL

    maritime controversies, trials of malefactors, and the like. See COURT, and ADMIRAL. The proceedings in this court, in all civil matters, are according to the Civil Law; because the sea is without the limits of the Common Law, and under the Admiral's...

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

  • ARCHITECTONIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITECTONIC

    or defense. See BUILDING, EDIFICE, etc. Architecture is usually divided, with respect to its objects, into three branches: Civil, Military, and Naval. Civil Architecture, called also absolutely and by way of eminence Architecture, is the art of...

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

  • CIVILhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/CIVIL

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

  • Lawhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law

    Pragmatic Sanction, &c. Recorded, in institute, Code, Novel, Register, Pandect, Corpus, Domesday, &c. Kinds, Civil, Canon, Sumptuary, &c. Respecting, 1°, Persons, as the King; his Prerogative, Royalties, &c. viz. granting Dispensation, Pardon,...

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  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    Pragmatic Sanction, &c. Recorded, in institute, Code, Novel, Register, Pandect, Corpus, Domesday, &c. Kinds, Civil, Canon, Sumptuary, &c. Respecting, 1°, Persons, as the King; his Prerogative, Royalties, &c. viz. granting Dispensation, Pardon,...

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

  • APPEALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPEAL

    is used in Common and Civil Law, to signify the removing of a Cause from an inferior Judge to a superior; or the having recourse to a superior Judge to rectify what is amiss in a Sentence passed by an inferior. See JUDGE and COURT. Appeals lie from any...

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

  • ADVOCATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADVOCATE

    which are equivalent to 35 pounds sterling, for pleading each cause. Advocate is still used in countries where the Civil Law obtains, for those who plead and defend the causes of clients trusted to them. See CIVIL LAW. In Scotland, they have a College,...

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

  • AGNATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGNATION

    in Civil Law, the bond of consanguinity or relation between the male descendants of the same father; as Cognation is the bond of relation between all the descendants of the same father, both males and females. See COGNATION. The difference, then,...

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

  • ALLUVIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALLUVION

    Alluvio, in the Civil Law, an Accessior or Accretion made along the Sea-shore, or the Banks of large Rivers, by means of Tempests or Inundations, Accretion, &c. The Civil Law places Alluvio among the lawful means of Acquisition; and defines it to be a...

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

  • AUTHENTICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTHENTICKS

    AUTHENTICA; in the Civil Law, is a name given to the Novels of Justinian. See NOVEL. The reason of the denomination is not well known.—Alciat will have it to have been first given them by Accursius. They were originally composed in Greek, and afterwards...

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

  • ABSTEMIOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTEMIOUS

    be Abstemious ; and that it might appear whether or no they kept up to the Injunction, it was one of the Laws of the Roman Civility, that they should kiss their Freinds and Relations whenever they accosted them. The Word seems form'd of abs and temetum,...

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

  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    to more or less particular; which, indeed, is a thing that embarrasses and amuses us on many other occasions: Thus in mere civil Histories, if one relates the Series of a Campaign, another the Bombardment of a Town, and a third the Wounding and Death of...

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

  • AGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGE

    that the Action may rest till he comes to full age. This, the Court in most Cases, ought to grant. It is otherwise in the Civil Law; which obliges Children in their Minority to answer by their Tutors, or Curators. See TUTOR, CURATOR, MINORITY, PUPIL,...

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

  • ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK

    Augmentation of other Animals. —Others suppose the sacred Cubit here spoke of, which was a Hand’s-breadth longer than the civil one: But this only affords a small Supply; besides, that the sacred Cubit does not appear to have been ever used, except in...

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

  • ARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ART

    Object, into Human, as Medicine; and divine, as Theology. See MEDICINE and THEOLOGY. Human, again, may be subdivided into Civil; as Law, Politics, etc, Military, as Fortification, etc. Physical, as Agriculture, Chemistry, Anatomy, etc. Metaphysical, as...

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

  • ARCHONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ARCHON

    Duoviri in the colonies and Municipia. See DUOVIR. The name Archon is also applied by some authors to various officers both civil and religious, under the Eastern or Greek Empire—Thus bishops are sometimes called Archons, and the same may be said of the...

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

  • ASSIZEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIZE

    from that hitherto spoke of—Our Assize may be defined a Court, Place, or Time where, and when Writs and Processes, either civil or criminal, or both, are considered, dispatched, decided, etc. by Judges and Jury. See PROCESS, COURT, DAY, JURY, &c. In...

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

  • ADJUNCThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ADJUNCT

    or reinforcements of the proof arising from the circumstances of the fact. See CIRCUMSTANCE, etc. Adjunct is also used in civil concerns, for a colleague, or fellow-officer, associated to another, to assist him in his ministry, to share the functions...

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

  • ADMIRALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADMIRAL

    cognizance, by himself, his lieutenant, or deputies, of all crimes committed on the sea, or the coasts thereof; and all the civil and marine transactions relating thereto: As also of what is done in all great ships, riding in any great river, beneath...

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