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111pandect — I (code of laws) noun body of law, canon, canon of laws, charter, code, codification, codified law, collection of laws, complete body of laws, digest, digest of law, enactment, legal code, principles, statute book II (treatise) noun analysis,… …
112Crusades — a series of military expeditions between the 11th and 14th centuries, in which armies from the Christian countries of Europe tried to get back the Holy Land (= what is now Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Egypt) from the Muslims. The soldiers who… …
113Kingdom of Sicily — Regnum Siciliae Regno di Sicilia ← …
114Manuel Artigas — y Cuerva was a historian and journalist. He was born in Tacloban, Leyte, on October 15, 1866. His parents were Miguel Artigas y Rodriguez, a Spaniard Cadiz, Spain and Soledad Cuerva y Molina of Bulacan. They were originally from Baler but they… …
115digest — digestedly, adv. digestedness, n. v. /di jest , duy /; n. /duy jest/, v.t. 1. to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system. 2. to promote the digestion of (food). 3. to obtain information, ideas …
116History of Poland during the Jagiellon dynasty — History of Poland …
117Admiralty, Black Book of the — MS containing documents connected with the admiralty of Sir Thomas Beaufort, 9 Hen. VI; ordinances of war made in 1385 and 1419. Volumes II IV contain the Domesday of Ipswich, the laws of *Oleron, the Spanish Consolat de la Mar, the maritime laws …
118Gundobad — (d. 516) Important king of the Burgundians (r. c. 480 516) and leading figure in the early post Roman world, Gundobad was a lawgiver and frequently involved with the major kings of his day. He was the nephew of the Roman general and power… …
119BURLA — BURLA, family of Jerusalem rabbis from the 18th century onward; members of the Burla family are also found in Greece and Turkey. ISRAEL JACOB BURLA (d. 1798) is mentioned in 1770 as one of the seven leading scholars who headed the Jerusalem… …
120Capitularies — Capitulary Ca*pit u*la*ry, n.; pl. {Capitularies}. [See {Capitular}.] 1. A capitular. [1913 Webster] 2. The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council. [1913 Webster] 3. A collection of laws or statutes, civil and… …
