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SUPERSTITIOUS USE

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English law. When lands, tenements, rents, goods or chattels are given, secured or appointed for and toward the maintenance of a priest or chaplain to say mass; for the maintenance of a priest, or other man, to pray for the soul of any dead man, in such a church or elsewhere; to have and maintain perpetual obits, lamps, torches, to be used at certain times to help to save the … [Read more...]

SUPERINSTITUTION

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The institution of one in an office to which another has been previously instituted; as where A. is admitted and instituted to a benefice upon one title, and B. is admitted and Instituted on the title or presentment of another. 2 Cro. Eliz. 463. A church being full by institution, if a second institution is granted to the same church this is a superlnstltution. Wharton. … [Read more...]

SUPERVENE

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That which occurs after an event which acts so as to change what occurs, see supervening cause and intervening cause. … [Read more...]

SUPERINTENDENT REGISTRAR

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In English law. An officer who superintends the registers of births, deaths, and marriages. There is one in every poor-law union in England and Wales … [Read more...]

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