Look up quartering in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Quartering may refer to: Dividing into four parts: Dismemberment - a form of execution Hanged,...
The Quartering Acts were two or more Acts of British Parliament requiring local governments of Britain's North American colonies to provide the British...
(Amendment III) to the United States Constitution places restrictions on the quartering (the placement and/or sheltering) of soldiers in private homes without...
chivalry to noblemen who could demonstrate that their lineage had extended "quarterings", i.e. several generations of noble ancestry, to be eligible for offices...
Port, Massachusetts Government, Impartial Administration of Justice, and Quartering Acts. The acts took away self-governance and rights that Massachusetts...
Parliament Navigation Iron Molasses Royal Proclamation of 1763 Sugar Currency Quartering Stamp up i.p.o Declaratory Townshend Tea Quebec Intolerable Conciliatory...
Criminalis Carolina specifies how every dismemberment (quartering) should ideally occur: Concerning quartering: To cut and hack apart his entire body into four...
Parliament Navigation Iron Molasses Royal Proclamation of 1763 Sugar Currency Quartering Stamp up i.p.o Declaratory Townshend Tea Quebec Intolerable Conciliatory...
elements (the tuned mass damper) for stabilization. Concerned about "quartering winds" (wind directed diagonally toward the corners of the building rather...
Ministry of Defense, he oversees issues related to property management and quartering of troops, housing, and medical support of the Armed Forces of the Russian...
Parliament Navigation Iron Molasses Royal Proclamation of 1763 Sugar Currency Quartering Stamp up i.p.o Declaratory Townshend Tea Quebec Intolerable Conciliatory...
greatest honour (see also dexter and sinister). A more versatile method is quartering, division of the field by both vertical and horizontal lines. This practice...
suppressed. Instead of imposing the traditional punishment of drawing and quartering, Catherine issued secret instructions that the executioners should execute...
Parliament Navigation Iron Molasses Royal Proclamation of 1763 Sugar Currency Quartering Stamp up i.p.o Declaratory Townshend Tea Quebec Intolerable Conciliatory...
kingdoms. The King wanted to symbolize the union for the first time, quartering the Castilian and Leonese arms, giving the arms of Castile pride of place...
punish the Province of New York for failing to comply with the 1765 Quartering Act, and establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right...
Parliament Navigation Iron Molasses Royal Proclamation of 1763 Sugar Currency Quartering Stamp up i.p.o Declaratory Townshend Tea Quebec Intolerable Conciliatory...
Parliament Navigation Iron Molasses Royal Proclamation of 1763 Sugar Currency Quartering Stamp up i.p.o Declaratory Townshend Tea Quebec Intolerable Conciliatory...
various obsolete customary units of measurement Quarters of nobility or quarterings, the number of generations in which noble status has been held by a family...
were frequently thrown on a fire), and then decapitating him and (3) quartering, i.e. dividing the body into four pieces. The man's head and quarters...
Principality of Monaco. His quartering of Argent three chevrons sable might be the family of Comenan (or Comelan). His quartering of Argent three bars gules...
Escutcheon Queen Máxima Oval shield-shaped (usually borne by women), a quartering of the Dutch royal arms with Orange; over all an escutcheon with the arms...
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