These 16 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Reprieve, Reprise, Reptiles.
the suspension or delay of the carrying out of a sentence (generally of death) on a prisoner. It is popularly but erroneously supposed to signify a permanent remission, or commutation of a capital sentence.
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in maritime law, a ship recaptured from an enemy or pirate. If recaptured within 24 hours of her capture she must be restored to her owners in whole; if after that period, she is the lawful prize of her recaptors.
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. See Snakes
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a village of Derbyshire, England. Here was founded the first Christian church in Mercia, of which Repton for a while was the royal and episcopal capital. It was the seat from before 660 till its destruction by the Danes in 874 of a celebrated nunnery, as afterward of an Austin priory from 1172 till the Dissolution. Remains of this priory are incorporated in the buildings of the free grammar school, which, founded in 1556 by Sir John Porte, has risen to be one of the great English public schools.
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an unprincipled method for the extinguishment of a debt, by simply refusing to acknowledge the obligation. The 11th amendment of the Constitution of the United States prohibits citizens of another or a foreign State from bringing suits against a State in the federal courts; while the individual States, not being independent sovereigns, could only be called to account by a foreign power through the National Government. Reprisals or war are thus as impossible as a suit at law, and there is really no means by which the States can be compelled to recognize and meet their obligations. Twice in the his tory of the country have several States taken advantage of this condition of affairs once after the commercial crisis of 1839, in which the United States Bank stopped payment, and again in the years following the Civil War. In the latter period Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas were among the defaulters. Virginia, indeed, refused payment chiefly on the ground that no part of its existing debt had been allocated to West Virginia when the latter was separated as a State in 1863; and later acts of repudiation found a local justification in the same grievance.
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in physics, the force which compels certain bodies or their particles to recede from each other. No repulsion exists between bodies at sensible distances, except when they are in certain electric or magnetic states, in which case the repulsions between them are in the inverse ratio of the square of the distance. At insensible distances, some influence keeps the particles of a body from being in in absolute co contact, whence results the phenomenon of elas ticity. The motions produced by heat are also a cause of strong molecular repulsion. The molecules of gases are always in a state of mutual repulsion.
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in law, one who has to all appearance the actual possession and ownership of property. When a reputed owner becomes bankrupt, all goods and chattels in his possession may in general, with the consent of the true owner, be claimed by the trustee for the benefit of the creditors.
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in the Roman Catholic Church, a solemn musical mass for the dead, which begins in Latin, "Requiem æternam dona eis," etc., "Give to them eternal rest," etc. Mozart, Jomelli, and Cherubini composed famous requiem
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the screen at the back of an altar. Also the screen in front of the choir, on which the rood was displayed, and the wall or screen at the back of a seat. An open hearth, upon which
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a ravine in Cameron co., Tex., where on May 9, 1846, the United States troops under Taylor defeated the Mexicans under General Arista, and opened the way to Matamoros.
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The name of the ministering spirit in the Jewish rabbinical legend of the angelic hierarchies. To this angel, the pure and simple essence of the divinity flows through Hajoth Hakakos; he guides the primum mobile, and bestows the gift of life on all. 66 وو
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answers of the Popes and emperors to questions in jurisprudence officially propounded to them. Rescripta principis (rescripts of the prince) were one of the authoritative sources of the civil law, and consisted of the answers of the emperor to those who consulted him, either as public functionaries or as individuals, on questions of law. They were often applied for by private persons, more especially women and soldiers, to solve their doubts or grant them privileges. The rescripts directed to corporate and municipal bodies were known as pragmaticæ sanctiones, a name which has found its way into the public law of Europe.
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in law, is the forcibly and knowingly freeing another from an arrest or imprisonment; and it is generally the same offense in the stranger so rescuing, as it would have been in a jailer to have voluntarily permitted an escape.
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in surgery, the operation of cutting out the diseased parts of a bone at a joint. It frequently obviates the necessity of amputating the whole limb, and, by by the removal of the dead parts, leaves the patient a limb which, though shortened, is in the majority_of cases better than an artificial one. Resection, which is one of the triumphs of modern surgery, was performed as early as 1762.
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the mignonette; the typical genus of Resedaceæ; from Europe and western Asia; known species, 26. One species, R. phyteuma, is eaten as a kitchen plant in Greece. R. odorata is the mignonette. R. luteola yields a yellow dye.
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in American history, a name given to a tract of land set apart for the use of Indians. The Southern States managed to have the Indians removed chiefly to Indian Territory ; in the Northern States local tracts of land were set apart. The tracts are scattered through the country from Maine to the Pacific Coast, numbering in all nearly 200 distinct reservations. They are placed under the direct control of national officers known as Indian agents, and are exempt from the operation of state laws. They are chosen usually with reference to water, timber, and game. The general government has made an effort to introduce schools, domestic animals, and to inculcate methods of stock raising and agriculture, but with only moderate success. Although the sale of liquor to reservation Indians is forbidden strictly by law, it goes on nevertheless. Even under the most favorable circumstances, there seems little prospect that the Indians will ever become civilized in the strict sense of the word. As a rule they are fond of hunting, fishing, and trapping. The wild instinct is strong. They do farm and raise stock, but the Indian does not seem to make a thrifty farmer. See Indians; Indian Territory
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