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  • 11tragedy of the commons — the decline or loss of a common property natural resource through continued exploitation after the maximum sustainable yield has been reached. Unhappily true of many fisheries where no one owns them and so no one has a vested interest in… …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 12Commons-based peer production — is a term coined by Harvard Law School professor Yochai Benkler to describe a new model of socio economic production in which the creative energy of large numbers of people is coordinated (usually with the aid of the Internet) into large,… …

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  • 13Commons Act 2006 — The Commons Act 2006[1] Parliament of the United Kingdom Long title An Act to make provision about common land and town or village g …

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  • 14The Form of Apology and Satisfaction — of 1604 was a document drawn up by a House of Commons committee protesting against King James I s handling of recent political issues.For a variety of reasons King James I had upset many in the House of Commons in his first Parliament. These… …

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  • 15Commons — Com mons, n. pl., 1. The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people. [Eng.] [1913 Webster] T is like the commons, rude unpolished hinds, Could send such message to their sovereign.… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 16The Relugas Compact — was the name given to the political plot hatched between H H Asquith, Sir Edward Grey and R B Haldane to remove Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman from the leadership of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in 1905. Why… …

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  • 17Commons (disambiguation) — Commons may refer to: Contents 1 People 2 Places 3 Things 4 See also People John R. Commons, economist and labour historian …

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  • 18Commons Daemon — Developer(s) Apache Software Foundation Stable release 1.0.1 Development status Active Written in Java …

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  • 19The Honourable — The prefix The Honourable or The Honorable (abbreviated to The Hon. or formerly The Hon ble ) is a style used before the names of certain classes of persons.UsageAustraliaIn Australia, all ministers in Commonwealth, states and the Northern… …

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  • 20The Right Honourable — (abbreviated as The Rt Hon. ) is an honorific prefix that is traditionally applied to certain people in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Anglophone Caribbean and other Commonwealth Realms, and occasionally… …

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