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Brewer's: Canon Law
A collection of ecclesiastical laws which serve as the rule of church government. (See below.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894CanonicalCanon A B C D E…Brewer's: Halifax Law
By this law, whoever commits theft in the liberty of Halifax is to be executed on the Halifax gibbet, a kind of guillotine. At Hallifax the law so sharpe doth deale, That whoso more than…Brewer's: Kepler's Laws
(Johann Kepler, 1571-1630): (1) That the planets describe ellipses, and that the centre of the sun is in one of the foci. (2) That every planet so moves that the line drawn from it to the…Brewer's: Lamp of the Law
(The). Irnerius the German was so called, who first lectured on the Pandects of Justinian after their discovery at Amalphi in 1137 Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Law Latin
(See Dog Latin.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Law's BubbleLaw A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…Brewer's: Law's Bubble
The famous Mississippi scheme, devised by John Law, for paying off the national debt of France (1716-1720). By this “French South-Sea Bubble” the nation was almost ruined. It was called…Brewer's: Æmillian Law
Made by Æmilius Mamercus the prætor. It enjoined that the oldest priest should drive a nail every year into the capitol on the ides of September (September 5). Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Agrarian Law
from the Latin ager (land), is a law for making land the common property of a nation, and not the particular property of individuals. In a modified form, it means a redistribution of land…Brewer's: Boyle's Law
“The volume of a gas is inversely as the pressure.” If we double the pressure on a gas, its volume is reduced to one-half; if we quadruple the pressure, it will be reduced to one-fourth;…Brewer's: By-laws
Local laws. From by, a borough. Properly, laws by a Town Council, and bearing only on the borough or company over which it has jurisdiction. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Trending
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