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lord justice-general. Scottish legal post. From the 15th cent. the lord justice-general was recognized as the supreme judge of criminal cases in Scotland, superseding the post of justiciar. The office, usually held by peers, was hereditary in the Argyll family from 1514 until 1628. Though the office... Read more
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impropriations impropriations
impropriations. Impropriation was the assignment of a benefice to a lay proprietor, as distinct from appropriation to a monastery. In either case medieval benefices were served by poorly paid vicars or curates, while the rectors, who received the income, were often licensed, privileged absentee... Read more
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military history. The study of war and its effects has a long and distinguished history, dating back to at least 2500 bc, when the Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu wrote his treatise on The Art of War. European theorists came later, but the tradition which began with Julius Caesar's Commentaries... Read more
Cherokee Cases Cherokee Cases
CHEROKEE CASES With the creation of the U.S. Constitution and a national government, political and legal policy-makers had to determine how to deal with Native American tribes that resided on lands granted to them by treaties. By the 1820s, U.S. policy toward what was regarded as the "Indian... Read more
Henry Cockburn Henry Cockburn
Cockburn, Henry (1779–1854). Scottish advocate, judge, and diarist, whose Memorials of his Time (1856) remains one of the most vivid and attractive accounts of Scottish politics and Edinburgh society and culture in what Cockburn called ‘the last purely Scotch age’. A... Read more
Writ of Habeas Corpus Writ of Habeas Corpus
HABEAS CORPUS, WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS, WRIT OF, is a legal procedure by which a court inquires into the lawfulness of a person's confinement. It takes the form of an order from a court or judge requiring the custodian to produce the prisoner in court for a judicial investigation into the validity... Read more
July July
July the seventh month of the year, in the northern hemisphere usually considered the second month of summer. The name is recorded from Middle English, and comes from Latin Julius (mensis) ‘(month) of July’, named after Julius Caesar.July monarchy a name for the monarchy... Read more
Cornelis Petrus Tiele Cornelis Petrus Tiele
Cornelis Petrus Tiele , 1830-1902, Dutch theologian and author of a number of valuable works on the history of religion. Important is his Outlines of the History of Religion (1876, tr. 1877).... Read more
Wagga Wagga Wagga Wagga
Wagga Wagga, New South Wales/Australia Settled in the 1830s with an Aboriginal name ‘(Place of) Many Crows’, the duplication of the word indicating the plural.... Read more

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