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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...

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  • ADOPTIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADOPTIVE

    Adoptivus, or Adoptivius, a person adopted by another. See Adoption. The Emperor Hadrian preferred adoptive children to natural ones; by reason we choose the former, but are obligedto take the latter at random. Adoptive children, amongthe Romans, were...

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  • ADVOWSONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVOWSON

    was left to the Religious, yet a Congé d'Elire, or Licence of Election, was first to be obtained of the Patron, and the Person elected was confirmed by him. If the Founder’s Family was extinct, the Patronage of the Convent went to the Lord of the Manor....

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  • ABELIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABELIANS

    that HEBREW Thabala, in Arabic, came to signify, to abstain from one's Wife. He concludes, that he is the most mistaken Person in the World, or the Story had reach'd Africa, and given occasion both to the Sect, and the Name. 'Tis true, the Rabbins do...

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  • 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

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  • ABSTRACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACT

    Magnitude and Humanity are Abstracts when consider'd in themselves, and without being attached to any particular Body, or Person ; tho they cannot have any real Subsistence without such Subjects, nor the Subjects without them. Thus, also, Whiteness is...

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  • ABATEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ABATEMENT

    Coat-Armour to diminish its proper Value and Dignity, and note some dishonourable Action, or Stain in the Character of the Person who bears it. See ARMS. 'Tis a little controverted among Authors, whether Heraldry allows of any such thing as regular...

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  • AFFIDAVIThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIDAVIT

    an Oath in Writing, sworn before some Person who hath Authority to take such Oath; and madeuse of, and read in Court, upon Motions, but not upon Trials,See Oath, Evidence, Witness, etc.In the Court of Chancery is an Affidavit Office ; under the...

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  • ACCESSORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCESSORY

    Sense, the Word stands opposed to Principal. SeePrincipal. Accessory, or Accessary, in Common Law, is chiefly used for a Person guilty of a felonious Offence; not principally, but by Participation; as, by Advice, Command, orConcealment. See Felony....

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

    ACQUITTAL, a Discharge, Deliverance, or setting freeof 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...

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  • ACOUSTICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACOUSTICS

    impossible to hear thelowest sound that can be made, to the Distance of a Furlong;and that he knows a way of hearing any Person speakthrough a Stone-Wall three Feet thick. See WHISPERINGPlace, and ECHO.Acoustic Nerve. See Auditory Nerve. ACOUSTICS

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