predial
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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A Rocinha está localizada entre dois bairros ricos – Gávea e São Conrado – dois dos bairros com o imposto sobre a propriedade predial e territorial urbana mais alta do Rio de Janeiro.
From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2015
Again, in the ninth and tenth centuries, pestilence and famine accelerated the extinction of predial slavery by weakening the numbers of the free population.
From On Compromise by Morley, John
Slavery of various kinds—racial, predial, domestic—the slavery of captives, and of debtors, had existed in India from time immemorial, and still flourished in 1836.
From Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by Sleeman, William
His cabinet immediately recognized a distinction between political and predial sources of disorder.
From Lord George Bentinck A Political Biography by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
Therefore it would seem that the clergy are bound to pay predial tithes.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
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