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• Petition
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] petition-, petitio, from petere to seek ...ror]. Petitions could be sent by anybody, from a [[scholar]]-official to a common farmer, although the petitions were more likely [[read]] to the emperor if
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• Siblings
  ...as one that shares the same father is known as an ''agnate sibling''. In [[law]], the term '''''consanguine''''' is used in place of agnate. Half siblings ...f siblings were often accorded unequal treatment. Old [[English]] [[common law]] at one time incorporated inequalities into the laws of intestate successi
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• Waif
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''weif'', ''waif'', from Anglo-French, from ''waif'', adjective, stray, un ...other helpless circumstance, from its original [[surroundings]]. The most common usage of the word is to designate a [[homeless]], [[forsaken]] or [[orphane
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• Hermit
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''heremite'', ''eremite'', from Anglo-French, from Late Latin ''eremita'', ...ited_States) Episcopal Church] in the United States, although in the canon law of the Episcopal Church they are referred to as "solitaries" rather than "h
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• Murder
  ...dle English murdre, from Anglo-French, of Germanic [[origin]]; akin to Old English morthor; akin to Old High German mord murder, [[Latin]] mort-, mors death, ...was an important legal [[mechanism]] in early Germanic society; the other common form of legal reparation at this time was blood [[revenge]]. If someone was
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• Weakness
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] wác, corresponding to Old Saxon, Middle Low German wêk, Middle Dutch wee ...of you catch up to the [[strongest]]. There is no way to circumvent this [[law]] of [[the universe]] for just when you feel yourself really making [[progr
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• Appeal
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] appel, from Anglo-French apel, from apeler ...urt on specific grounds. These grounds typically could include errors of [[law]], [[fact]], or procedure (in the United States, [https://en.wikipedia.org/
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• Symbols
  ...dicate a battlefield, and the [[numeral]]s used to represent [[number]]s. Common psychological symbols are the use of a gun to represent a penis or a tunnel ...he question in an effort to define [[culture|cultural objects]], such as a law, a constitution, a marriage ceremony. All the nouns in the story are in thi
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• Conscience
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] conscientia, from conscient-, consciens ...plative]] considerations about the [[origin]] and operation of conscience. Common [[secular]] or [[scientific]] views regard the [[capacity]] for conscience
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• Propulsion
  [Middle English propellen, from Latin propellere, from pro- before + pellere to drive — ...propulsion''' is the [[act]] of moving an object through the air. The most common [[types]] are [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propeller propeller], jet engi
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• Mediocrity
  ...cted in the uses of Middle French ''médiocre'' and ''médiocrité'' and of [[English]] ''mediocrity''. Classical Latin ''mediocritās'' is used already with imp ...elements that make up these molecules are (to a greater or lesser extent) common to all [[stars]], and the laws of [[science]] we know apply to the entire [
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• Dominion
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] dominioun, from Middle French dominion, modification of [[Latin]] dominium In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_common_law English common law] the Dominions of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Crown British
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• Rogue
  In [[modern]] [[English]] [[language]], the term rogue is used pejoratively to [[describe]] a disho ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Harman Thomas Harman]'s ''Caveat for Common Cursitors'' (1566).
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• Seduction
  [[English]] common [[law]] defined the [[crime]] of seduction as a felony committed "when a [[male]] [[Category: Law]]
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• Suspension
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] suspensyon, from Anglo-French suspension, from Late Latin suspension-, su :c : temporary abrogation of a [[law]] or rule
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• Sui Generis
  In [[law]], it is a term of [[art]] used to identify a legal classification that exi ...of the words is ambiguous or inherently unclear. For example, in criminal law, a statute might require a ''mens rea'' element of "unlawful and malicious"
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• Riot
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French riote rash [[action]], [[noise]], disorder ...by [[three]] or more [[persons]] assembled together and [[acting]] with a common [[intent]]
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• Visitor
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French visiter, from [[Latin]] visitare, frequentative of vise ...tor''', in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom United Kingdom] [[law]] and [[history]], is an overseer of an [[autonomous]] [[ecclesiastical]] o
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• Exile
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''exil'' banishment, [[Latin]] ''ex(s)ilium'', equiv. to ''exsul'' banishe It is common to distinguish between internal exile, i.e., forced resettlement within the
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• Spirit
  ...ting ''[[Psyche (psychology)|psykhē]]''. The word was loaned into [[Middle English]] via [[Old French]] ''espirit'' in the 13th century. In India [[Prana]] me ...-existing or eternal soul because belief in souls is specific and far less common, particularly in traditional societies.
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