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... signify , not a penalty , but an end . The fine of his fines means the end or termination of his fines . That his fine pate is filled , not with fine dirt , but with the last dirt which will ever occupy it , leaving a satirical ...
... signify , not a penalty , but an end . The fine of his fines means the end or termination of his fines . That his fine pate is filled , not with fine dirt , but with the last dirt which will ever occupy it , leaving a satirical ...
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... signify robbery , and also the thing stolen : PETRUCHIO . BAPTISTA . " 6 They will steal anything and call it purchase . " Twelfth Night , Act 4 , Scene 1 . " What dower shall I have with her to wife ? " After my death , the one - half ...
... signify robbery , and also the thing stolen : PETRUCHIO . BAPTISTA . " 6 They will steal anything and call it purchase . " Twelfth Night , Act 4 , Scene 1 . " What dower shall I have with her to wife ? " After my death , the one - half ...
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... signify that part or beginning of a deed the office of which is to express the grantor , and grantee , and the land or thing granted or conveyed : and also the houses , lands , or places , & c . , mentioned before . PROSPERO . " Now the ...
... signify that part or beginning of a deed the office of which is to express the grantor , and grantee , and the land or thing granted or conveyed : and also the houses , lands , or places , & c . , mentioned before . PROSPERO . " Now the ...
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... signify commandments , in writing , issued out by a justice of the peace , & c . , for bringing a person or records before him . FALSTAFF . " Was it for me to kill the heir apparent . Merry Wives of Windsor , Act 2 , Scene 4 . Heirs ...
... signify commandments , in writing , issued out by a justice of the peace , & c . , for bringing a person or records before him . FALSTAFF . " Was it for me to kill the heir apparent . Merry Wives of Windsor , Act 2 , Scene 4 . Heirs ...
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... make use of the words " bevelling line " to signify the inclination of a surface from a right line . ALCIABIADES . " I am a humble suitor to your virtues ; For pity is the virtue of the law , KING . And non but tyrants use it cruelly . 43.
... make use of the words " bevelling line " to signify the inclination of a surface from a right line . ALCIABIADES . " I am a humble suitor to your virtues ; For pity is the virtue of the law , KING . And non but tyrants use it cruelly . 43.
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2nd edition 33rd Henry VIII All's assurance attorney BOLINGBROKE bond CADE called church door clergy Clerk common law court covenants Cymbeline death deed poll doth double vouchers dower dowment FALSTAFF fealty fee-simple forfeit freehold grantor Hamlet hand hath heart heir apparent Henry VI Here's hold homage husband indented indenture inheritance King Lear KING RICHARD king's knowledge of seamanship lands or tenements law terms laws of England lawyer lease letters patent Litt lord Macbeth mayor merchant and statutes Merchant of Venice Merry Wives offence parchment parties passage person Pipe plea pleading Præmunire pray Prince of Tyre PROTEUS purchase Quietus Rape of Lucrece recognizances recovery replication Scene seal Second Part Henry seize Shakespeare signify Sonnet statute merchant statute staple suit tenant tenure testament thee thou hast THURIO Timon of Athens Troilus and Cressida Venus and Adonis whereof wife Wives of Windsor Wood's Inst Wood's Institute words writ
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Page 44 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 29 - Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man...
Page 50 - Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Page 32 - I am thy father's spirit, Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purg'd away.
Page 30 - Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge? is this thy body's end? Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store...
Page 38 - Kiel, against the form of the Statute in such case made and provided and against the peace of Our said Lady the Queen, her Crown and dignity.
Page 30 - Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
Page 24 - Homage," says the Treatise of Tenures, " is the most honorable service, and most humble service of reverence, that a frank tenant may do to his lord : for when the tenant shall make homage to his lord, he shall be ungirt and his head uncovered, and his lord shall sit and the tenant shall kneel before him on both his knees, and hold his hands jointly together between the hands of his lord. and shall say thus: I become your man, from this day forward, of life and limb, and of earthly worship, and unto...
Page 24 - I become your man from this day forward [of life and limb, and of earthly worship,] and unto you shall be true and faithful, and bear to you faith for the tenements that I claim to hold of you, saving the faith that I owe unto our sovereign lord the king ; and then the lord, so sitting, shall kiss him.
Page 48 - Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.