a right which a creditor has in or to the property of his debtor, in virtue of which he may cause it to be sold and the price appropriated in payment of his debt
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movement upward in virtue of lightness n
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A person invested with a title, in virtue of which he holds an office or benefice, whether he performs the duties of it or not. a
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One of a school of Lutheran divines which held that the body of Christ is present everywhere, and especially in the eucharist, in virtue of his omnipresence