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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
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In ecclesiastical law, the removal of a bishop from one see to another.
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In copyright law, the making a version of a literary work in another language, presenting, however, as nearly as possible, the same thoughts in the same order.
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Used with reference to legacies, it means the bestowing a legacy previously given to one person upon another; a species of ademption. Translation, in the common sense of the word, signifies a version out of one language into another; but, in a more confined acceptation, it denotes the removing from one place to another; so the removal of a bishop to another diocese, &c., is called translating.
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