• Cassare or calissare (from Portuguese casar, "to marry") was the term applied to the marriage alliances, largely in West Africa, set up between European...
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    facts of a case and the relevant law. The term derives from the Latin cassare, "to reverse or overturn". The European Court of Justice answers questions...
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  • Abert was among those who thought that the term derives from the Italian cassare, meaning "to dismiss", implying a musical farewell, or Abschiedsmusik....
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  • Caymanians Multiracial Ugandans in Uganda Coloureds Rhineland Bastard Cafres Cassare, a marriage alliance between European traders and African rulers. Mixed...
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    'casar', meaning 'to marry'. Cassare formed political and economic bonds between European and African slave traders. Cassare was a pre-European-contact...
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    created alliances with the local African people through a practice known as cassare or calisare derived from the Portuguese casar meaning "to marry." Dutch...
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    Rossignol Ana Joaquina dos Santos e Silva Marie Baude Hope (Esperança) Booker Cassare Gens de couleur Affranchi Plaçage French people in Senegal Morganatic marriage...
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  • sinodalem sententiam condempnastis, et omnia, quae ab eo fuerant statuta, cassare incredibili prorsus audacia presumpsistis. Peter Damiani, "Disceptatio...
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  • installed as commandant Fort Lijdzaamheid soon after his arrival. Here he cassared a local African woman named Afodua or Aphodewa, with whom he would have...
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