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Jubilee, Year of.
1. According to the Mosaic law (Lev. 25) a year occurring every 50 years, when Jewish slaves regained their freedom and land reverted to its former owners: it is questionable how far the law was actually observed in OT times.

2. In the RC Church a ‘Holy Year’ (q.v.).

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