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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: Blue Laws
(The). These were puritanical laws enacted in 1732, at New Haven, Connecticut, in the United States of America. Their object was to stamp out “heresy,” and enforce a strict observance of…Brewer's: Mariotte's Law
At a given temperature, the volume of a gas is inversely as the pressure. So called from Ed. Mariotte, a Frenchman, who died 1684. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Martian Laws
Laws compiled by Martia, wife of Guithelin, great-grandson of Mulmutius, who established in England the Mulmutian Laws. Alfred translated both these codes into Saxon-English. Guynteline…Brewer's: Limb of the Law
(A). A lawyer, or a clerk articled to a lawyer. The hands are limbs of the body, and the lawyer's clerks are his hands to copy out what the head of the office directs. Source: Dictionary…Brewer's: Mulmutine Laws
The code of Dunvallo Mulmutius, sixteenth King of the Britons (about B.C. 400). This code was translated by Gildas from British into Latin, and by Alfred into Anglo-Saxon. These laws…Brewer's: Myrmidons of the Law
Bailiffs, sheriffs' officers, and other law menials. Any rough fellow employed to annoy another is the employer's myrmidon. The Myrmidons were a people of Thessaly who followed Achilles to…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…Trending
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