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  • AVERAGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AVERAGE

    AVERAGE, AVERAGIUM, in Law, that Duty or Service which the Tenant is to pay the King, or other Lord, by his Beasts and Carriages. See SERVICE. The Word is derived from the base Latin, Averia, or the French, Oeuvre, Work. AVERAGE is also used in...

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

  • Commercehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/commerce

    COMMERCE, or the Affairs of MERCHANDIZE ; including, Money, Coin, Species &c. as Pound, Crown, Shilling, Penny, Sterling. Ducat, Dollar, Piece of Eight. Talent, Sesterce, Shekel, and the* like. Weights, Libra, Ounce, &c. Measures, Foot, Yard, Standard,...

    • Type: Category

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

    1 METEOROLOGY, or the History of AIR and ATMOSPHERE: including, 1°, that of its Contents, Æther,Fire,Vapour, Exhalation, &c. 2°, Meteors form'd therein, as Cloud, Rain, Shower, Drop, Snow, Hail, Dew, Damp, &c. Rainbow, Parhelion, Halo, Thunder, Water-...

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

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

    'TIS not without some Concern that I put this Work in the Reader's Hands; a Work so disproportionate to a single Person's Experience, and which might have employ'd an Academy. What adds to my Jealousy, is the little measure of Time allow'd for a...

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

  • ASIENTOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASIENTO

    ASIENTO,in Matters of Commerce, a Contract or Convention between the King of Spain and other Powers, for furnishing the Spanish Dominions in America, with Negro Slaves. See NEGRO, etc. The Term is originally Spanish, and signifies a Contract:...

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

  • AVENORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AVENOR

    AVENOR, an Officer under the Master of the Horse; who, by Order or Warrant from him, swears in all the Officers belonging to the Stables. See MASTER OF THE HORSE. The Avenor also makes up the Accounts of the Stables, and issues Debentures for paying the...

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

  • APPANAGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPANAGE

    APPANAGE, Appanagium, Appanace, or Appennagium, the Fortune of a King’s younger Son: or a settled Portion of Lands, etc., assigned for the Subsistence of the Cadets, or younger Sons of a Sovereign Prince. See KING, etc. The younger Sons of England have...

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

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

    ADDICTIO, Addiction, in Roman Law, is a transferring or passing over goods to another; whether by sentence of a court, or in the way of sale, to the highest bidder. See ALIENATION. The word stands opposed to Abdicatio, or Abdication. See ABDICATION,...

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

  • ALLODIALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALLODIAL

    ALLODIAL, Allodran, in ancient Customs.——Allodra, or Allodran Land, is that whereof a Person has the absolute Property; or which he holds without paying any Service or Acknowledgment to any Superior Lord. See PROPERTY, etc. Such an Inheritance is...

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

  • ASSUMPSIThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSUMPSIT

    ASSUMPSIT,in Law, a naked Contract; or a voluntary Promise, by Word of Mouth, by which a Man assumes and takes upon him to perform, and pay anything to another. See CONTRACT, COVENANT, etc. This Term comprehends any verbal Promise; and is variously...

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

  • ALMONERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMONER

    the Widows of such Household Servants as died poor, and were not able to provide for their Wives and Children, whom he duly pays. Under the Lord Almoner is a Sub-Almoner, a Yeoman, and two Grooms of the Almonry, chosen by his Lordship. ALMONER

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

  • DEFTARDARhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/DEFTARDAR

    has in his Charge the Rolls, and Accounts of the Militia, and the Treasury; He receives all the Grand Seignior's Revenues, pays his Forces, and furnishes the Expences of all public Affairs: In which, his Office differs from that of the Chaznadar, who is...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Politics - Policy - Justice

  • APPROVERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPROVER

    in his Appeal. This Proof should either be by Battle, or by the Country, at the choice of the Appellee. See PROOF, BATTLE, PAYS, etc. Approvers of the King, are those who have the letting of the King’s Demesnes in small Manors, etc. See DEMESNE. APPROVER

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

  • AUDITORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDITOR

    AUDITOR, a hearer, or one who listens or attends to anything. See HEARING, ATTENTION, and AUDITORY. AUDITOR is also used for several officers, appointed to audit, or hear accounts, pleadings, etc. See ACCOUNT. Anciently the word AUDITOR was also used...

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

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

    ADVOCATE, Advocatus, among the Romans, a person skilled in their law, and who undertook the defense of causes at the bar. See LAW. The word is compounded of ad, and voco, i.e. I call to my aid, or defense. The Roman Advocates answered to one part of the...

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

  • ABJURATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABJURATION

    ABJURATION, a solemn Renunciation, or Recantation of an Error, Heresy, or false Doctrine. See RECANTATION. The Word is form'd of the Latin Abjurare ; which in Cicero, and other Roman Writers, signifies the denying a thing upon Oath. Thus, Abjurare...

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

  • ACCEPTANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACCEPTANCE

    ACCEPTANCE, Acceptio, Acceptatio, in matters of Law, refers to agreeing or consenting to some act already done, which, without such consent, might have been undone or rendered invalid. The acceptance of a donation is necessary for its validity and is a...

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

  • APPORTIONMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/APPORTIONMENT

    APPORTIONMENT, in Law, a dividing of a Rent into two Parts or Portions, according as the Land whence it issues, is divided among two, or more. See RENT, DIVISION, PARTITION, etc. Thus if a Man, having a Rent-Service issuing out of Land, purchase a part...

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

  • APPLYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPLY

    APPLY is used among Mathematicians three ways:1. It signifies to transfer a Line given into a Circle, most commonly, or into any other Figure; so as its Ends be in the Perimeter of the Figure. 2. To apply denotes as much as to divide, especially among...

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

  • ASPERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ASPER

    ASPER, in Grammar.—Spiritus Asper,a Character or Accent, in form of a comma; placed over certain Letters, in the Greek Tongue, to show they are to be strongly aspirated, and to supply the Place of an H. See ASPIRATE. ASPER also signifies a little...

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