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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • ACQUITTALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACQUITTAL

    a Discharge, Deliverance, or setting free of a Person from the Guilt or Suspicion of an Offence.The like Discharge in Civil Concerns, is called an Acquittance.See ACQUITTANCE. Acquittal is of two Kinds; in Law, and in Fact.When two are appealed or...

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • ABSOLUTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABSOLUTION

    ABSOLUTIO, in the Civil Law, &c. a definitive Sentence, whereby a Person accused of any Crime, &c. is acquitted, and declared Innocent. Among the Romans, the ordinary Method of pronouncing Judgment was this : After the Cause had been pleaded on both...

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

  • 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

  • ANTECESSORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTECESSOR

    PREDECESSOR, etc. The Term is particularly used in some Universities for a Professor, who teaches, or lectures the Civil Law. ANTECESSOR

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

  • ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARITHMETIC

    was given by Niccolò Tartaglia, a Venetian, in 1556, consisting of two Books; the former, the Application of Arithmetic to civil Uses; the latter, the Grounds of Algebra. Something had been done before by Stifel, in 1544; where we have several...

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