Sentence Examples

  • In every case of death from disease or unknown causes sorcery was suspected and an inquest held, at which the corpse was asked by each relative in succession the name of the murderer.
  • He waved a hand as if to brush her inquest off.
  • The two shire-courts sat together for the Domesday Inquest, and the counties were united under one sheriff until the time of Elizabeth.
  • The inquest system of Henry II., the law of wreck, and the institution of coroners, measures of Richard and his ministers, come under review as well as the Provisions of Oxford and the Statute of Marlborough."
  • Ballard, The Domesday Boroughs (1904) and The Domesday Inquest (1906), an excellent summary; W.
 
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