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  • ANCESTORShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCESTORS

    ANCESTORS, Progenitors; or those from whom a Person is descended. See PROGENITOR. The Word is derived from the Latin Ancestor, wrote, by Contraction, for Antecessor, gone before. The Law distinguishes between Ancestor and Predecessor; the former being...

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

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

    Persons, to take Cognizance of some one or two Cases, as a Disseisin, or the like—This was frequently practiced among our Ancestors. Bracton, lib. 3. c. 12. Assize, or Assise, is also used for a Writ directed to the Sheriff, for the Recovery of...

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

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

    At fourteen, she may take her Lands into her own Hands; and should be out of Ward, if she were at this Age at her Ancestor’s Death. At sixteen, she should be out of Ward; though at the Death of her Ancestor she was under fourteen: The Reason is, that...

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

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

    possessory, which lie for lands, etc., of his own possession, or seisin; and ancestral, of the seisin or possession of his ancestor. See ANCESTRAL. But Real Actions, formerly so numerous and considerable, as Writs of Rights, of Entry, etc., with their...

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

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

    of this. I come like an Heir to a large Patrimony, gradually rais'd by the Industry, and Endeavours of a long Race of Ancestors. What the French Academists, the Jesuits de Trevoux, Daviler, Chauvel, Savary, Chauvin, Harris, Wolfius, and many more have...

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

  • ASHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASHES

    Medicine, Bleaching, Sugar-Works, etc. See LIXIVIUM; see also BARILLA, etc. The Ancientspreserved the Ashes of their dead Ancestors, with great Care and Piety, in Urns, for the Purpose. See FUNERAL, URN, etc. Ashes, of all Kinds,in Virtue of their Salt,...

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

  • ALLODIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLODIUM

    62d Title of the Salic Law, is, De Allodis; where the Word signifies Hereditary Lands, or those derived from a Man’s Ancestors. Whence Allodium and Patrimonium are frequently used indiscriminately. See PATRIMONY. In the ancient Capitulars of Charlemagne...

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

  • ALMANACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMANACK

    or New-Years Gifts. See EPHEMERIDES. To say no more, Verstegan writes the Name Almon-ac and makes it of Saxon Origin: Our Ancestors, he observes, used to carve the Courses of the Moon of the whole Year upon a square Stick, or Block of Wood, which they...

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

  • ANGELICAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGELICA

    by reason, as Pollux assures us, the Dancers were dressed in the Habit of Messengers. Angelica Vestis, among our Ancestors, was a Monkish Garment, which Laymen put on a little before their Death, that they might have the Benefit of the Prayers of the...

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

  • ANCESTRELhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ANCESTREL

    in Law.—Homage Ancestrel, signifies Homage that hath been done or performed by one’s Ancestors. See HOMAGE. Action Ancestrel. See ACTION.

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

  • ALDERMANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALDERMAN

    among our ancient Saxon Ancestors, was one of the three Orders or Degrees of Nobility. See NOBILITY, ETHELING WAS THE FIRST, ALDERMAN THE SECOND, and THANE THE LOWEST. See ETHELING, and THANE.The Alderman was the same as our Earl or Count; which...

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

  • ALMSFEOHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMSFEOH

    or Almsgough, among our Saxon Ancestors, Alms-Money; that is, Peter-pence, anciently paid in England on the first of August; called also Romescot, Romesceot, and Hearthpening. See PETER-PENCE. ALMSFEOH

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

  • ASSUMPTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSUMPTION

    that they believed that the Holy Virgin was assumed, or taken into Heaven, Body and Soul. ASSUMPTION was also among our Ancestors, used for the Day of the Death of any Saint: Quia ejus anima in Coelum assumitur. ASSUMPTION, in Logic, is the Minor, or...

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

  • ANNIVERSARY Dayshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNIVERSARY%20Days

    Days, Dies Anniversarii, among our Ancestors were those Days wherein the Martyrdoms of the Saints were yearly celebrated in the Church; as also Days whereon, at every Year’s end, Men were wont to pray for the Souls of their deceased Friends....

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

  • ATTAINDERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTAINDER

    upon him. See FELONY and TREASON. The children of a person attainted of treason cannot be heirs to him, or any other ancestor; and if he were noble before, his posterity are hereby degraded and made base: Nor can this corruption of blood be saved but by...

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