Month: April 2021

ameliorate (v.)

1728, “to make better,” in some cases perhaps a back-formation from amelioration on pattern of French améliorer, or else from Medieval Latin amelioratus, past participle of ameliorare. Intransitive sense “grow better” is from 1789. The simpler form meliorate was used in Middle English. Related: Ameliorated; ameliorating; ameliorable.

De donis conditionalibus = donation

of the 13th century (statute De donis conditionalibus, 1285) allowed a conveyor of land to limit its inheritance to the direct descendants of the conveyee and to claim it back if the conveyee’s direct line died out (fee tail). (See also entail.) In one of their few deviations from the…

conveyance (n.)

mid-15c., conveiaunce, “act of conveying, act of carrying or transporting,” from convey + -ance. Meaning “document by which something is legally conveyed” is from 1570s; sense “means of transportation” is attested from 1590s. Related: Conveyancer; conveyancing (n.). The Old French abstract noun was convoiement.

Post Declaration & Proclamation

1. FREE MOORISH-AMERICAN ZODIAC CONSTITUTION: (Zodiac Constitution and Birthrights of the Moorish Americans) being Ali, Bey, El, Dey and Al), Article two (2), Paragraph two (2).

2. UNITED STATES REPUBLIC: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: Moorish American Credentials:  AA 222141- TRUTH A-1

3. UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT: SUPREME LAW – Acts of State

4. UNITED STATES REPUBLIC CONSTITUTION: Article III (3), Section two (2), Amendment V (5) (Liberty clause) and Amendment IX (9) (Reservation of the Rights of the People).

5. RESOLUTION NUMBER SEVENTY-FIVE (75): Dated April 17, 1933 A.D. (MOORISH-AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA AND THE USE OF THEIR NAMES),

6. UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS – UNITED NATIONS – HUMAN RIGHTS [Article Fifteen (15)].

7. RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES – UNITED NATIONS: GENERAL ASSEMBLY – Part 1, Article 4.

8. Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1787

9. The Declaration of the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and People UN GA #1514

10. The American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man’ (Adopted by the Ninth International Conference of American States Bogota, Colombia, 1948 at Article 5, Article 17, Article 26

11. Declaration on the Principles of International Law

12. Executive Order Number: 13107, 63, Federal Register, 68,991 (1998)- Implementation of Human Rights Treaties

mandate (n.)

c. 1500, “a command, a judicial or legal order,” from French mandat (15c.) and directly from Latin mandatum “commission, command, order,” noun use of neuter past participle of mandare “to order, commit to one’s charge,” literally “to give into one’s hand,” probably from manus “hand” (from PIE root *man- (2) “hand”) + dare “to give” (from PIE root *do- “to give”).

Political sense of “approval supposedly conferred by voters to the policies or slogans advocated by winners of an election” is from 1796. League of Nations sense “commission issued by the League authorizing a selected power to administer and develop a territory for a specified purpose” (also used of the territory so specified) is from 1919.

mandate (v.)

1620s, “to command,” from mandate (n.). Meaning “to delegate authority, permit to act on behalf of a group” is from 1958; used earlier in the context of the League of Nations, “to authorize a power to control a certain territory for some specified purpose” (1919). Related: Mandated; mandating.