Hat-tippings and cap-doffings are of course of a different nature to more elaborate verbal greetings. In etiquette manuals they may be described as incentives to a conversation, but in practice they seem to have been quite ceremonial.

The conveyance called a bargain and sale of lands , whereby the bargainor bargains and sells the land to the bargainee , and becomes by such a bargain seised to the use of the bargainee

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I know he'll have you stitched up with pre-nuptial agreements but if he's prepared to pay you five thousand bucks a day just to granny-sit, then being his wife has got to be worth at least double that.