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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In old English law, a writ which lay in favor of the king, to determine what lands and tenements ‘have come’ to the crown by escheat by reason of the death of a tenant in capite.
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Non desunt, qui ex jugi studio, et intempestiva lucubratione, huc devenerunt, hi prae caeteris enim plerunque melancholia solent infestari.
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Note 41: Richeri, p. 301: Alii vero qui remanserunt ad tantam penuriam devenerunt, ut non ipsos quis hospicio reciperet; ut de ipsis illud Ieremie dici posset: Parvuli petierunt panem, et non erat qui frangeret illis.
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