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Definition of Fortieths
1. fortieth [n] - See also: fortieth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fortieths
Literary usage of Fortieths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. California Unreported Cases: Being Those Decisions Determined in the Supreme by California Supreme Court, Peter V. Ross, California District Courts of Appeal (1913)
"Freeman and Glassell were conveyed by them to the McCarthy Company, defendant,
thus vesting in it title to thirty-three fortieths of the whole property. ..."
2. Journal of the House of the State of Missouri by Missouri General Assembly. House of Representatives (1919)
"... along the distance improved, lands lying within one-fourth mile of state road
shall be assessed for sixteen-fortieths of the cost of improvement; ..."
3. The Income Tax: A Study of the History, Theory and Practice of Income by Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman (1911)
"Here the assessable income is fixed at thirty-fortieths of the real income; the
rate, therefore, is really fifteen per cent. ..."
4. The Queensland Law Journal Reports by W. H. Osborne (1890)
"... excepting the prospecting claim, and as to nine-fortieths of the prospecting
claim for Thomas Hall, as to one- eighth of the mine for D'Arcy, ..."
5. Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to by William Richard Cutter (1908)
"... and at her decease is disposed of to the following organizations : Massachusetts
General Hospital, seven-fortieths for establishing the "Dr. John M. ..."
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