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AFFIANCE, contracts. From affidare or dare fidem, to give a pledge. A plighting of troth between a man and woman. Litt. s. 39. Pothier, Traite du Mariage, n. 24, defines it to be a an agreement by which a man and a woman promise each other that they will marry together. This word is used by some authors as synonymous with marriage. Co. Litt. 34, a, note 2. See Dig. 23, 1 Code 5, 1, 4; Extrav. 4, 1. |
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18, 2004; and Global concerns focus on the powerless women who are
living with AIDS in the developing world: microbicides might work where
ABCs don't, Affiance for Microbicide Development Weekly Digest,
2004, Vol. An affiance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and
hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in
the State Department. In a
sign of progress for the US gaming market, eValley was led to this deal
through its affiance with a third-party content publisher, New
York-based Micro Java Network, which offers its services to developers
at no cost. |
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