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FRESCA

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In old records. Fresh water, or rain and land flood. … [Read more...]

FREEDOM

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The state of being free; liberty; self-determination; absence of restraint; the opposite of slavery. The power of acting, in the character of a moral personality, according to the dictates of the will, without other check, hindrance, or prohibition than such as may be imposed by Just and necessary laws and the duties of social life. The prevalence, in the government and … [Read more...]

FRESH

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Immediate; recent; following without any material Interval. Fresh disseisin. By the ancient common law, where a man had been disseised, he was allowed to right himself by force, by ejecting the disseisor from the premises, without resort to law, provided this was done forthwith, while the disseisin was fresh, (flagrante disseisina.) Bract, fol. 1626. No particular time was … [Read more...]

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