"Perpetuity Of The King" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL
That fiction of the English law which for certain political purposes ascribes to the king in hls political capacity the attribute of immortali-ty; for, though the reigning monarch may die, yet by this fiction tbe king never dies, i. c., tbe office is supposed to be reoccupied for all political purposes immediately on bis death. Brown
The owner of the Agut d'Avignon had the air of a 1920s dandy who had ruined himself with one mad night of gambling at baccarat and had only been saved by this restaurant, which he seemed to cherish as if it were his wife or a good fountain pen.
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