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  • 51Property — • The person who enjoys the full right to dispose of it insofar as is not forbidden by law Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Property     Property      …

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  • 52Reductions of Paraguay — • Jesuit campaign to convert the natives of Paraguay Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Reductions of Paraguay     Reductions of Paraguay      …

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  • 53Right — • Substantive designating the object of justice Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Right     Right     † …

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  • 54sacred cow —    The English idiom sacred cow was coined with ref erence to the veneration of cows that is common in India, but it reflects a degree of misunderstand ing. Hindus do venerate and respect cows, but they do not regularly worship them; nor do they… …

    Encyclopedia of Hinduism

  • 55bona vacantia — bo·na va·can·tia / bō nə vā kan shē ə/ n pl [Latin, ownerless goods]: goods that are unclaimed and without an apparent owner it was trash, in the nature of bona vacantia, which the defendants had abandoned United States v. Calise, 217 F. Supp.… …

    Law dictionary

  • 56Hamburger — Ham|bur|ger [ hambʊrgɐ], der; s, : flache Frikadelle in einem aufgeschnittenen Brötchen: er aß einen Hamburger mit Pommes frites. * * * Hạm|bur|ger 〈m. 3〉 1. Einwohner von Hamburg 2. 〈engl. [ hæ̣mbœ:gə(r)]〉 gebratener Hackfleischklops zw. zwei… …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 57Бесхозяйная вещь — (англ. abandoned thing /ownerless property) по гражданскому законодательству РФ вещь, которая не имеет собственника или собственник которой неизвестен, либо вещь, от права собственности на которую собственник отказался. Если это не исключается… …

    Большой юридический словарь

  • 58waive — [13] To waive something is etymologically to make a ‘waif’ of it. The word comes from Anglo Norman weyver, a derivative of the noun weif (source of English waif [14]). This originally meant ‘ownerless property’, and so 539 waltz the verb came to… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 59mustang — (n.) small, half wild horse of the American prairie, 1808, from Mex.Sp. mestengo animal that strays (16c.), from Sp. mestengo wild, stray, ownerless, lit. belonging to the mesta, an association of cattle ranchers who divided stray or unclaimed… …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 60waif — (n.) late 14c., unclaimed property, flotsam, stray animal, from Anglo Norm. waif, gwaif (early 13c.) ownerless property, probably from a Scandinavian source akin to O.N. veif waving thing, flag, from P.Gmc. *waif , from PIE *weip to turn,… …

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