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  • 61Chantry — • The endowment of one or more priests to say or sing Mass for the soul of the endower, or for the souls of persons named by him, and also, in the greater number of cases, to perform certain other offices, such as those of choir member in a… …

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  • 62Roger Bacon — • Philosopher, born at Ilchester, Somersetshire, about 1214; died at Oxford, perhaps 11 June, 1294 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Roger Bacon     Roger Bacon      …

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  • 63leasehold estate — ➔ estate * * * leasehold estate UK US noun [C] LAW, PROPERTY ► a situation in which a building, piece of land, etc. is used for a particular period of time, as agreed in a lease: »A leasehold estate is an interest in land for a definite period of …

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  • 64lease — /lis / (say lees) noun 1. an instrument conveying property to another for a definite period, or at will, usually in consideration of rent or other periodical compensation. 2. the period of time for which it is made. 3. land which has been leased …

  • 65continuando — /kantinyuwaendow/ In old pleading, a form of allegation in which the trespass, criminal offense, or other wrongful act complained of is charged to have been committed on a specified day and to have continued to the present time, or is averred to… …

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  • 66dying without issue — Dying without a child either before or after the decedent s death. At common law this phrase imports an indefinite failure of issue, and not a dying without issue surviving at the time of the death of the first taker. But this rule has been… …

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  • 67indefinite failure of issue — A failure of issue not merely at the death of the party whose issue is referred to, but at any subsequent period, however remote. A failure of issue whenever it shall happen, sooner or later, without any fixed, certain, or definite period within… …

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  • 68continuando — /kantinyuwaendow/ In old pleading, a form of allegation in which the trespass, criminal offense, or other wrongful act complained of is charged to have been committed on a specified day and to have continued to the present time, or is averred to… …

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  • 69dying without issue — Dying without a child either before or after the decedent s death. At common law this phrase imports an indefinite failure of issue, and not a dying without issue surviving at the time of the death of the first taker. But this rule has been… …

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  • 70indefinite failure of issue — A failure of issue not merely at the death of the party whose issue is referred to, but at any subsequent period, however remote. A failure of issue whenever it shall happen, sooner or later, without any fixed, certain, or definite period within… …

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