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Ali'i - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ali ʻ i is the hereditary chiefly or noble rank (class, caste) in traditional Hawaiian society. The ali ʻ i class consisted of the high and lesser chiefs of the various realms in the islands. The...
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Moiety - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moiety may refer to: •A part or half of a molecule, often conflated with functional group •One of two kinship groups into which a society is divided •An Australian Aboriginal kinship group •Native Ha...
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Lesion beyond moiety - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lesion beyond moiety is a civil law term used to describe the ability of a seller of immovable property to rescind that sale if the price paid for the property is less than (usually half of) the actu...
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Definition of moiety from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. ... 2 : one of the portions into which something is divided : component, part <an ether molecule with a benzene moiety>; 3 : one of two basic complementary tribal subdivisions...
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Definition of MOIETY from Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary with examples and pronunciations. ... Learn more about "MOIETY" and related topics at Britannica.com...
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The moiety system is a more unusual form of unilineal descent and involves the occurrence of descent groups in linked pairs which assume complementary positions and functions. Each moiety (or half) of a pair will almost always be exogamous and take its husbands and wives exclusively from the matched group.
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