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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" Volume 10, Slice 1

EVANGELICAL CHURCH CONFERENCE EXPULSION EVANGELICAL UNION EXTENSION EVANS, CHRISTMAS EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES EVANS, EVAN HERBER EXTERRITORIALITY EVANS, SIR GEORGE DE LACY EXTORTION EVANS, SIR JOHN EXTRACT EVANS, OLIVER EXTRADITION EVANSON, EDWARD EXTRADOS EVANSTON EXTREME UN...

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4. Act 1851 made parties to legal proceedings admissible witnesses subject

to a proviso that "nothing herein contained shall render any person who in any criminal proceeding is charged with the commission of any indictable offence, or any offence punis...

16. part iv. contains various supplementary provisions. By order in council

the term "explosive" may be extended to any substance which appears to be specially dangerous to life or property by reason of its explosive properties, or to any process liable...

7. Part II. is divided into two Branches, viz.:--

The Board of Examiners (or "jury") consists of (i.) University examiners being members of a faculty of letters or faculty of sciences; (ii.) secondary teachers, active or retire...

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EVANGELICAL CHURCH CONFERENCE, a convention of delegates from the different Protestant churches of Germany. The conference originated in 1848, when the general desire for politi...

21. v. 14 with its difficult reference to Artaxerxes now seems to presuppose

the decree in iv. 21 and looks forward to the time of Ezra or Nehemiah. As regards this section (Ezr. i.-vi.) as a whole, there is little doubt that i. iii. 1-iv. 5, vi. 15-22 a...

22. ii. 280, 283, 365-366), and in the citation by Hakluyt of an unprinted

work of Fabyan as the authority for his note of Cabot's voyages. That Fabyan had continued his Chronicle to 1511 may be accepted as certain, but no trace of the manuscript can n...

11. Act 1895, No. 20 of 1895).

FRANCE.--Provisional execution (_saisie-arret_) with a view to obtain security has been already mentioned. Execution against personalty (_saisie-execution_) is preceded by a _co...

15. ii. 1-3), can only be ascribed to a priestly writer: its absence from

Deut. v. 6 ff. is otherwise inexplicable. Thus the Decalogue, as given in Exodus, would seem to have passed through at least three stages before it assumed its present form. But...

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EVANGELICAL CHURCH CONFERENCE EXPULSION EVANGELICAL UNION EXTENSION EVANS, CHRISTMAS EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES EVANS, EVAN HERBER EXTERRITORIALITY EVANS, SIR GEORGE DE LACY EXTO...

18. ii. 9), and in their present shape were hardly pronounced in public--a

fact that seems to be hinted at in the statement that he was "dumb" till the fall of Jerusalem (iii. 26, xxxiii. 22); in private interviews the people did not take him seriously...

12. xviii. 497), in which case the murderer was allowed to remain in the

country, his only means of escaping punishment was flight to a foreign land. If, during his self-imposed exile, the relatives expressed their willingness to accept the indemnity...

13. v. No allusion, however, is made by Moses to this previous demand; he

merely urges the same objection as that put forward in iv. 10f. With the resumption[4] of the story in vi. 28f. Moses reiterates his objection, and is told that Aaron shall be h...

20. ix. 25 with the question who is worthy to share in the blessedness of

the next world. As regards the first problem the writer shows, in the first vision, that suffering and death come from sin--no less truly on the part of Israel than of all men,...

9. xviii. 15-17; public offences are to be dealt with according to the rule

in 1 Cor. v. 3-5, 13. The public expulsion or suspension of the offender is necessary for the good repute of the church, and its influence over the faithful members. The expelle...

23. c. 7 every lord of a fair entitled to exact tolls was bound to appoint

a clerk to collect and enter them. It was also this functionary's business to test measures and weights. Tolls, again, are sometimes held to include "stallage" and "picage," whi...

8. iii. 20 recognizes a factious spirit as a reason for excommunication

after two admonitions (cf. Tim. vi. and 2 John v. 10). In 3 John v. 9-10 Diotrephes appears to have secured an excommunication by the action of a party in the church. It is clea...

19. chapter vii., which is omitted in all the above editions, originated

through the excision of a leaf in this MS. A splendid edition of this version based on MSS. containing the missing fragment, which have been subsequently discovered, has been pu...

17. xl. 3 are merely imaginative symbols or representations of divine

activity. His high conception of God's transcendence, it may be supposed, led him to ignore intermediary agencies, which are common in the popular literature, and later, under t...

10. Act 1873, s. 25 (8).

_Attachment._--A judgment creditor may "attach" debts due by third parties to his debtor by what are known as garnishee proceedings. Stock and shares belonging to a judgment deb...

14. xxiii. 10-19) are combined with a mass of civil and other legislation;

hence the title "Book of the Covenant" (referred to above, xxiv. 7) has usually been applied to the whole section, xx. 22-xxiii. 33. But this section includes three distinct ele...

6. Part I. is divided into four Branches, viz.:--

Oral (i.) Explanation of a Greek text. (ii.) Explanation of a Latin text. (iii.) Explanation of a French text. (iv.) Text in a modern foreign language. (v.) Interrogation on anc...

5. Part II. may not be taken within an academic year after passing Part

There is no requirement of attendance. Part I. of the examination corresponds exactly to the subjects taken in the "second cycle" of secondary education, and Part II. to the _cl...

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