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An unmarried person (usually female) who is a virgin or has had very limited encounters with sexual activity. … [Read more...] about CHASTE

In old French law. The eldest born. A term used in Poitoh and other places. Guyot, Inst. … [Read more...] about CHEMIER

That virtue which prevents the unlawful commerce of the sexes. 2. A woman may defend her chastity by killing her assailant. See Self-defence. And even the solicitation of her chastity is indictable in some of the states; Words charging a woman with a violation of chastity are actionable in themselves. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition Purity; continence. That virtue … [Read more...] about CHASTITY

Fr. The road wherein every man goes; the king's highway. … [Read more...] about CHEMIN

property. A term which includes all kinds of property, except the freehold or things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects. Debtors taken in execution, captives, apprentices, are accounted chattels. Chattels are personal or real. Personal, are such as belong immediately to the person of a man; chattels real, are such as either appertain not … [Read more...] about CHATTEL