In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DUPLICAND
Noun
duplicand (plural duplicands)
(Scotland, legal) A doubling of the duty to be paid on a feu.
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OBLIGATE
(adjective) restricted to a particular condition of life; “an obligate anaerobe can survive only in the absence of oxygen”
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