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A silver coin of India, rated at 2s. for the current, and 2s. 3d. for the Bom- bay, rupee.

The result of electro chemical corrosion to iron and steel. It requires water and oxygen and is a form of oxidation.

The billionaire mogul of media who holds the major share in News Corp. An Australian with interests in print, television and music publications.

a term that is used to describe a person who steals cattle.

Lat. In the civil law. Broken. A term applied to a will. Inst. 2, 17, 3.

An area that is sparsely populated and located away from a city. Characterised by farming areas, open spaces and vegetation.

The circuit of an archdeacon’s and rural dean’s jurisdictions. Every rural deanery is divided into parishes. See 1 Steph. Comm. 117.

In English ecclesiastical la . Very ancient officers of tlie church, almost grown out of use, until about the middle of the present century, about which time they were generally revived, whose deaneries are as an ecclesiastical division of the diocese or archdeaconry. They are deputies of the bishop, planted all round his diocese, to inspect tlie conduct of the parochial clergy, to inquire into and report dilapidations, and to examine candidates for confirmation, armed in minuter matters with an inferior degree of judicial and coercive authority. Wharton.

Iu the civil law. A servitude annexed to a rural estate, (prwdium rusticum.)

A new development of land that is between an area of rural activity and the edge of suburban area that has already been developed.