...The idea of the corpus or corporation as a distinct and fictitious person was developed only about the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century, under the influence of the speculations of canonical jurists. About the same time (1392) the old statutes...

...cil and cist to pronominal and adjectival functions respectively may have been, the fact is that by the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century there was an established tradition in the language that cil was the pronoun and cist the adjective....

...was perhaps the successor of a Saxon building. The present aspect was chiefly due to reconstructions at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century. Afterwards the visitors inspected the handsome tombs of the Fogge and Smythe families, the brass memorial...

...was perhaps the successor of a Saxon building. The present aspect was chiefly due to reconstructions at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century. Afterwards the visitors inspected the handsome tombs of the Fogge and Smythe families, the brass memorial...

...one was hanged, and the other three starved to death. With such scenes disgracing the whole Empire at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century, it was little wonder that when any man inquired who was at the bottom of any new war or villainy, he...

...to be found in the old palace at Cintra, of which the greater part was built by Dom Joao 1. towards the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century. Formerly all the piers of the old cathedral of Coimbra were covered with such tiles, but they have...

...A considerable part of the monastic property consisted of appropriated rectories, and two Statutes at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century require, in the event of such appropriation, that the monks should bind themselves to distribute therefrom...

...occupation of Asia Minor. Many of these stories are, however, presumably of much greater antiquity than the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century, the date assigned to this famous Oriental wit. In character they are most varied ; some are proverbial...

...tenant at will at common law and the copyholder, owing to the uncertain practice in letting the land at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century, above 174 n. 3 ; of course, when once the character of the letting had been ascertained the legal distinction...

...that Mayapan was what tradition declares it to have been, the headquarters of the predominant cacique at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth centuries. Stephens, who made a fairly careful survey of the ruins in 1842, discovered a mound 60 feet...