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  • 121consortium — /k3nsorsh(iy)3m/ Conjugal fellowship of husband and wife, and the right of each to the company, society, co operation, affection, and aid of the other in every conjugal relation. Roseberry v. Starkovich, 73 N.M. 211, 387 P.2d 321, 322. Loss of… …

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  • 122unavoidable — Not avoidable, incapable of being shunned or prevented, inevitable, and necessary @ unavoidable accident An inevitable accident; one which could not have been prevented by exercise of due care by both parties under circumstances prevailing.… …

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  • 123shotgun wedding — noun see shotgun marriage * * * 1. a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy. 2. Informal. a compromise, merger, accord, etc., occasioned by necessity: The coalition government was obviously a shotgun wedding. Also, shotgun marriage.… …

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  • 124ENGLAND — The British Isles were unknown to the Jews until a late date, and the settlement of the Jews in medieval England was among the latest in Europe. It is possible that a small nucleus was to be found there under the Romans and that in the Saxon… …

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  • 125KINGS, BOOK OF — KINGS, BOOK OF, biblical book divided into two roughly equal parts, beginning with an account of the end of david s reign, Solomon s succession and reign, and the disruption of the kingdom at his death, and continuing with the parallel histories… …

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  • 126MA'ASEH — (Heb. מַעֲשֶׂה), a factual circumstance from which a halakhic rule or principle is derived; as such it constitutes one of the Jewish law sources. A legal principle originating from ma aseh is formally distinguished from those originating from one …

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  • 127NUISANCE — The owner or person in possession of land is not at liberty to use it as he pleases. Land, even if unencumbered, may not be used in such manner as to harm or disturb one s neighbors. Any neighbor can require the offending landowner to abate the… …

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  • 128TAM, JACOB BEN MEIR — (Rabbenu; c. 1100–1171), tosafist and leading French scholar of the 12th century. Rabbenu Tam was the grandson of rashi and the son of meir b. samuel , Rashi s son in law. His teachers were his father, his brother samuel , and jacob b. samson , a …

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