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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 950 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the
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late
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Lat. antianum, from ante, before)  , old or in olden times . "
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Ancient
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history" is distinguished from
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medieval and
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modern, generally as meaning before the fall of the western
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Roman
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empire . In
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English legal history, " ancient "
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tenure or
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demesne refers to what was
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crown
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property in the
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time of
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Edward the
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Confessor or
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William the Conqueror . "The Ancient of days " is a Biblical phrase for
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God .

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