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  • ADULTERINEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADULTERINE

    in the Civil Law, a child issued from an adulterous affair, or commerce. See ADULTERY. Adulterine children are more odious than the illegitimate offspring of single persons—The Roman Law even denies them the title of natural children, as if nature...

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

  • ANTICHRESIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTICHRESIS

    in the Civil Law, a Covenant or Convention, whereby a Person borrowing Money of another, engages, or makes over his Lands to the Creditor, with the Use and Occupation thereof, for the Interest of the Money lent. This Covenant was allowed of by the...

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

  • ADVENTITIOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVENTITIOUS

    as does not properly belong to any body, but is casually joined to it.See ACCRETION, APPUNCTION, etc. Adventitious, in Civil Law, is applied to such goods as fall to a man, either by mere fortune, or by the liberality of a stranger, or by collateral...

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

  • ACCEPTILATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACCEPTILATION

    ACCEPTILATION, in the Civil Law, an acquittance given without receiving any money: or a declaration of the creditor, in favor of the debtor, signifying that he is satisfied for his debt, or that he forgives it him, and will make no further demands....

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

  • ADMINISTRATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADMINISTRATION

    GOVERNMENT and JUSTICE. Indolent princes confide the administration of public affairs to their ministers. See MINISTER. Civil wars are usually raised on pretense of maladministration or of abuses committed in the exercise of justice. See WAR....

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