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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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PUR'PRESTURE, n. In law, a nuisance, consisting in an inclosure of or encroachment on something that belongs to the public; as a house erected or inclosure made on the king's demesnes, or of a highway, &c.
Wrongful encroachment upon another's property] esp.,
any encroachment upon, or inclosure of, that which should be common or
public, as highways, rivers, harbors, forts, etc.
[Written also
pourpresture.] | ||||||||