Appanage is an allowance which the younger princes of a reigning house (in which the right of primogeniture prevails) receive from the revenues of the country that they may live in a manner becoming their rank. It consists mostly in money, with the use of a residence and hunting grounds, attended frequently with the right of jurisdiction over these domains. When it is once fixed it passes to the descendants of the appanaged princes, sprung from a law* ful marriage, of a suitable rank, and in their default commonly falls into the hand of the reigning sovereign. Appanage is not an Eng. lish legal term, but it is used on the Oontj» nent, and is sometimes met with in Scotch history. Alma Matjeb, a Latin phrase generally applied by scholars to the University at which they graduated. The literal meaning is "a benign mother,"
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Evening Star, Issue 7860, 18 March 1889, Page 1
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144Page 1 Advertisements Column 9 Evening Star, Issue 7860, 18 March 1889, Page 1
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