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

    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 Performance...

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

    effect, therefore, may be justly imputed to the agent. See Moral. A Moral Action may be more fully defined to be whatever a person, considered as endowed with the powers of understanding and willing, and with respect to the end he ought to aim at, and...

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  • ABSOLUTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ABSOLUTION

    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 sides, the...

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

    Thus, Abjurare creditum, was to forswear a Debt, or to deny the owing it upon Oath, &c. So, in our own Laws, To abjure a Person, is to renounce all Authority or Dominion of such a Person. Thus, by the Oath of Abjuration, a Person binds himself not to...

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  • ADONIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADONIC

    for a young man to adopt an elder;because that had been contrary to the order of nature: but it was even required that the person who adopted shouldbe eighteen years older than his adoptive son; that theremight at least appear a probability of his being...

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  • ADDICTIOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADDICTIO

    It is formed from Addico, one of the stated words used by the Roman judges when they allowed the delivery of the thing or person on whom judgment had passed. Hence, goods thus adjudged by the Praetor to the right owner were called Bona addita; and...

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  • ACTORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACTOR

    ACTOR, in Dramatic Poetry, one who represents somePerson or Character upon the Theatre. See Person, andCHARACTER. Tragedy, in its original, only consisted of a simple Chorus,who sang Hymns in honor of Bacchus. See TRAGEDY,and CHORUS. Thespis was the...

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  • ACCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENT

    certain inflection of voice, or a peculiar tone and manner of pronunciation, contractedfrom the country or province where a person was bred. SeeVoice and Pronunciation. In this sense, we say the Welsh tone or accent, theNorthern accent, the Gascon...

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  • AIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AID

    or Aide, Auxilium, literally denotes the Help, Succor, or Assistance, which any Person lends another whentoo weak to do, or avoid something. See Assistant. The Word is French, formed, according to M. Menage,from the Italian Aiutare; and that from the...

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  • ACCOUNThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCOUNT

    of Account; see also Pound, etc. Account is also a relative term used in respect to a company or society when two or more persons have received or disbursed for each other; or when this has been done by their order or commission. See Company,...

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  • ADVOCATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/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 office of...

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  • ABDICATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ABDICATION

    Act whereby a Magistrate, or Person in Office renounces and gives up the same, for himself and his Heirs. See RENUNCIATION. Abdication is frequently confounded with Resignation ; but, strictly speaking, there is a difference : Abdication being done...

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  • ACCUSATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCUSATION

    of the Publick. See Action, andCriminal. By the Roman Law, there was no publick Accuser forpublick Crimes; every private Person, whether interestedin the Crime or not, might accuse, and prosecute the Accused to Punishment or Absolution. But the...

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  • AFFIRMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIRMATION

    declare, and affirm."Which is the form now used, in the same manner, and under the same limitation with the former. Any person deposing, upon his solemn affirmation, a known falsehood, incurs the penalty of willful and corrupt perjury. See Perjury....

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  • ADROGATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADROGATION

    among the Romans, was a kind of adoption, only differing from it in this: that the person here adopted was free and consented to be adopted byanother; and that it was done at the assembly of the people, while the Commonwealth subsisted; and afterwards...

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  • AD Quod Damnumhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AD%20Quod%20Damnum

    in any town, or place. SeeFair, Market, etc. The same writ also issues for an inquiry to be made ofwhat the king or other person may suffer, by grantinglands in fee-simple to a convent, chapter, or other bodypolitic; because such land falls into...

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

    of the sacramentsin his parish. See PARSON, PARISH, etc. The administration of the sacrament is prohibited to persons excommunicate.See EXCOMMUNICATION. In beneficiary matters, they distinguish two kinds ofadministration; temporal, which relates to the...

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  • ACCOMPLISHMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCOMPLISHMENT

    or fulfilling of something proposed, or undertaken. The Accomplishment of the Prophecies of the Old Testament, in the Person of our Saviour, is the great mark ofhis being the Messiah. See Prophecy. There are two ways of accomplishing a Prophecy;...

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  • ACCUMULATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCUMULATION

    together. The word is compounded of ad and cumulus, "heap."The lawyers speak of an accumulation of titles; as, when a person claims lands, a benefice, or the like, in virtue of several titles or pretensions of different kinds; e.g. by death, by...

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

    something accruing or befalling a person or thing from without. See Accession, etc.Thus, Adventitious Matter, is such matter as does not properly belong to any body, but is casually joined to it.See Accretion, Appunction, etc. Adventitious, in Civil...

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