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  • Thumbnail for Agenais
    title of count of Agenais, which the kings of England had allowed to fall into desuetude, was revived by the kings of France, and in 1789 was held by the...
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    was encouraged, but now is much neglected, and perhaps soon will fall into desuetude." Another conjecture about its origin is that the hobby horse was...
    50 KB (5,706 words) - 15:23, 19 February 2024
  • customs, or they may lose their legal force by the mere fact that they fall into desuetude. Finally, an authentic declaration that a custom is absolutely contrary...
    16 KB (2,432 words) - 20:48, 2 April 2024
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    use of their personal property, the vow of poverty also passed into virtual desuetude. In 1652, under Philip IV, the three Spanish orders took a new vow:...
    24 KB (3,252 words) - 01:48, 4 June 2024
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    Commissioner H.N. Davies recorded that Zafar "is evidently sinking from pure desuetude and paralysis in the region of his throat". To prepare for his death Davies...
    36 KB (3,360 words) - 11:22, 26 June 2024
  • by a velarized one." In the post-Classical period, these rules fell into desuetude, and in popular verse simple assonance often suffices, as can be seen...
    37 KB (4,845 words) - 14:51, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bahadur Shah Zafar grave dispute
    November 6, Davies recorded that Zafar "is evidently sinking from pure desuetude and paralysis in the region of his throat." To prepare for the king's...
    7 KB (945 words) - 15:39, 8 June 2024
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    become impossible. Consignation (payment into court with notice to the creditor) appears to have fallen into desuetude, and is in any event impossible or impracticable...
    237 KB (36,863 words) - 06:41, 16 April 2024
  • Succession to the Byzantine Empire (category Fall of the Byzantine Empire)
    end through the rules of extinctive prescription as a direct result of desuetude, or lack of use. Charles IX wrote that the imperial Byzantine title "is...
    94 KB (12,195 words) - 15:38, 30 May 2024
  • according to legal opinion from the Attorney-General of Jersey, have fallen into desuetude – although the Department for Constitutional Affairs did not accept...
    66 KB (6,597 words) - 13:30, 20 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Andreas Palaiologos
    end through the rules of extinctive prescription as a direct result of desuetude, or lack of use. Charles IX wrote that the imperial Byzantine title "is...
    57 KB (7,423 words) - 19:25, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Municipal Corporations Act 1835
    remained more than 100 unreformed boroughs, which generally either fell into desuetude or were replaced later under the terms of the Act. The last of these...
    46 KB (1,963 words) - 17:38, 10 May 2024
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    less successful subject is not to remain a mediocrity or slip into decadence and desuetude.” The idea is to divide up the labor of caring for the cosmos...
    112 KB (15,373 words) - 16:37, 26 December 2023
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    et politique". Lille, 2010. Thierry Simonelli, Günther Anders, De la désuétude de l'homme. Paris: Éditions September 2004. Spanish Libertad en la era...
    48 KB (5,165 words) - 15:08, 21 June 2024
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    cares that are not suitable, and ignorance of present circumstances, desuetude, and unskillfulness. All these things we endure from the brain, when it...
    131 KB (15,592 words) - 16:12, 29 May 2024
  • dignities until the reign of Henry VIII, when the latter method fell into desuetude. Some peerage dignities, however, have since been created by writs of...
    40 KB (5,361 words) - 01:20, 16 May 2024
  • The Last September (category Irish novels adapted into films)
    Anglo-Irish/English/Irish relations – is a pervasive effect of attenuation, bathos, desuetude. ‘They were delayed, deflected,’ it is said of Hugo’s and Marda’s lengthy...
    29 KB (4,322 words) - 10:36, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act
    (Canada) Albert, Richard (2014). "Constitutional Amendment by Constitutional Desuetude". The American Journal of Comparative Law. 62 (3): 661. doi:10.5131/AJCL...
    51 KB (5,070 words) - 20:26, 19 April 2024
  • imposition of such canonical penances of a determinate duration fell into desuetude these expressions were sometimes popularly misinterpreted as reduction...
    85 KB (10,526 words) - 21:24, 1 May 2024
  • work. Death becomes it well: its subject matter is ageing and death, desuetude and deliquescence. But also memory and fondness, loving and nostalgia...
    19 KB (2,882 words) - 11:31, 5 December 2023
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