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| Fervent belief and loyalty given to the political unit of the nation-state. |
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| The legal principle that the oldest son inherits all family property or land. |
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| An economic arrangement by which a number of investors pool their capital for investment. |
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| A legal document granted by a government to some group or agency to implement a stated purpose, and spelling out the attending rights and obligations. |
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| An official count of population, often also describing other information about the population. |
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| Concerning the decentralized medieval social system of personal obligations between rulers and ruled. |
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| A poor person obligated to a fixed term of labor. |
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| Originally, religious freedom granted by an established church to a religious minority. |
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| A frontier farmer who illegally occupied land owned by others or not yet officially opened for settlement. |
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| A respected, usually elderly, female head of a household or extended clan. |
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| Popular term for an ethnically diverse population that is presumed to be "melting" towards some eventual commonality. |
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