Search results for: “surname”
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Park
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Park Meaning of Park A piece of ground enclosed for purposes of pleasure, exercise, amusement or ornament. A place for the resort of the public for recreation, air and light. In its feudal sense, the […]
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Lynch
Grammar This term is a verb. Etimology of Lynch (You may find lynch at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). 1835, “inflict severe (but not deliberately fatal) bodily punishment (on someone) without legal sanction,” from earlier Lynch law (1811), in […]
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Potter
Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Potter (You may find potter at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). maker of pots (they also sometimes doubled as bell-founders), late Old English pottere “potter,” reinforced by Old French potier […]
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Kitchen
Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Kitchen (You may find kitchen at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). room in which food is cooked, part of a building fitted out for cooking, c. 1200, from Old English cycene “kitchen,” from Proto-Germanic […]
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Banting
Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Banting (You may find banting at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). system for weight loss through diet control, named for William Banting (1797-1878), the English undertaker who invented it, tested it himself, and […]
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Thatcher
Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Thatcher (You may find thatcher at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). early 14c. (late 12c. as a surname); agent noun from thatch (verb). Corresponds to Old English _ecere, Dutch dekker, German Decker. Thatcherite in […]
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Plumber
Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Plumber (You may find plumber at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). late 14c. (from c. 1100 as a surname), “a worker in any sort of lead” (roofs, gutters, pipes), from Old French plomier “lead-smelter” […]
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Hangman
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Hangman Meaning of Hangman An executioner. The name usually given to a man employed by the sheriff to put a man to death, according to law, in pursuance of a judgment of a competent court and lawful […]
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Hangman
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Hangman Meaning of Hangman An executioner. The name usually given to a man employed by the sheriff to put a man to death, according to law, in pursuance of a judgment of a competent court and lawful […]
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Hatchet
Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Hatchet (You may find hatchet at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). c. 1300 (mid-12c. in surnames), “small axe with a short handle,” designed to be used by one hand, from Old French hachete “small […]
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Hobbesian
Grammar This term is an adjetive. Etimology of Hobbesian (You may find Hobbesian at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). 1776, of or resembling the writings of English thinker Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), whose works on political philosophy have a reputation for […]
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Heckler
Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Heckler (You may find heckler at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). mid-15c., “one who uses a heckle” (late 13c., as a surname, Will. le Hekelere), agent noun from heckle (verb). Sense of “audience member […]
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Jeffersonian
Etimology of Jeffersonian (You may find Jeffersonian at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). 1799; this term is also a noun., 1800 (adj.), in reference to the politics and policies of U.S. politician and statesman Thomas Jefferson, first great leader of the […]
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Fuck
Grammar This term is a verb. Etimology of Fuck (You may find fuck at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). to have sexual intercourse with (transitive), until recently a difficult word to trace in usage, in part because it was omitted as taboo by the editors of the […]
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Plea
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Plea Meaning of Plea An allegation made by either party in a litigation . A defendant ‘s answer of fact to the plaintiffs allegation. A plea in bar is one that goes to the merits of the case and denies […]