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Answer for the clue "Original positions ", 5 letters:
situs
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In law , the situs (pronounced "sī'təs") ( Latin for position or site) of property is where the property is treated as being located for legal purposes. This may be important when determining which laws apply to the property, since the situs of an object ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Latin, "situation, position" (see site ). In technical uses in English, "proper or original position and location of something" (as in in situ ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Situs \Si"tus\, n. [L., situation.] (Bot.) The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged; also, the position of the parts. --Henslow.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The position, especially the usual, normal position, of a body part or part of a plant. 2 The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged. 3 (context legal English) The location of a property as used for taxation or other legal purposes.
Usage examples of situs.
But all the signs point to a fetishistic serial killer, someone targeting people with situs inversus for some ritual or psychological reason.
Hic prope Chaucerum situs est Spenserius, illi Proximus ingenio proximus ut tumulo.
States to tax and to reject as inadequate jurisdictional claims of the latter founded upon such bases as control, benefit, and protection or situs.
Court has in fact relied to sustain taxation exclusively by the situs State, logically would seem to permit taxation by the domiciliary State as well as by the nondomiciliary State in which the tangibles are situate, especially when the former levies the tax on the owner in terms of the value of the tangibles.
Ex ea cum tela tormentis iacerentur ad fontis aditum, nec sine periculo possent aquari oppidani, non tantum pecora atque iumenta, sed etiam magna hostium multitudo siti consumebatur.
Cum pertinaciter resisterent oppidani, magna etiam parte amissa siti suorum in sententia permanerent, ad postremum cuniculis venae fontis intercisae sunt atque aversac.