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Law of Property Act, 1922
Law of Property Act, 1922 (English) (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 16). This statute came into operation on 1st January,1926. With the Amending Acts of 1924 and 1926 (15 Geo. 5, c. 5), it provides for the abolition of copyhold and customary tenure; the extinguish-ment of manorial incidents (but not, apart from the lord's consent of his rights to mines, minerals, franchises, fairs and sporting rights), and the conversion of perpetually renewable leaseholds into long terms. The other provisions of this Act, sometimes called Lord Birkenhead's Act of 1922, have been repealed or consolidated and amended by the Law of Property Acts, 1925 to 1932....
Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)
Law of Property Act, 1925 (English) 915 Geo. 5,c. 20), with amending Acts, 1926, 1929 and 1932 (cited together as the Law of Property Acts, 1925 to 1932), has consolidated and effected changes in the land laws with the object of simplifying the transfer and conveyance of land. An important change was the abolition of all legal estates or tenures in land, except an estate in fee simple in possession, and a term of years absolute in or in certain incorporeal hereditaments arising out of annexed to or charged upon the legal estate in land. Any number of these legal estates can exist in respect of the same piece of land or incorporeal hereditament; for instance, land may be held in fee simple, leased and mortgaged at the same time. all other estate and interests inland are reduced to equitable interests. All mortgages of the same legal estate under the statutory conditions are legal estates. None being for the whole fee simple or the term, but each for a term taken out of the fee or origin...
Law of shipping
Law of shipping, means the part of maritime law relating to the building, equipping, registering, owning, inspecting, transporting, and employing of ships alongwith the laws applicable to shipmasters, agents, crews and cargoes; the maritime law relating to ships. Also termed shipping law, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 893....
Law of status
Law of status, means the category of law dealing with personal or non-proprietary rights, whether in rem or in personam. It is one of the three departments into which civil law is divider, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 893....
law of the case
law of the case :a doctrine in legal procedure: an issue esp. of law that has been decided (as by an appeals court) will not be reconsidered in the same case unless compelling circumstances warrant such reconsideration ;also : a matter of law considered as settled in a case [the jury instructions were not objected to and thus became the law of the case] ...
law of the land
law of the land 1 : the established law of a nation or region 2 : due process ...
law of the sea
law of the sea often cap L&S : a body of international law promulgated by United Nations convention and covering a range of ocean matters including territorial zones, access to and transit on the sea, environmental preservation, and the resolution of international disputes ...
Law Officers of the Crown
Law Officers of the Crown, shortly termed 'Law Officers,' the Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General, this definition was contained in s. 93 of the (English) Patents and Designs Act, 1907, but deleted by the (English) Patents and Designs Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 32), s. 13 and Sch. Consult Norton-Kyshe's Attorney-General and Solicitor-General of England.The Scottish Law Officers are the Lord Advocate and the Solicitor-General (q.v.)....
Law practice
Law practice, means an attorney's professional business, including the relationships that the attorney has with clients and the goodwill associated with those relationships, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 894....
Law Reform (UK)
Law Reform (UK). By the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 41), all causes of action shall with certain exceptions survive on the death (after the 24th July, 1934) of any person against or for the benefit of his estate. See actio personalis, and by s. 1(2) it is enacted:Where a cause of action survives as aforesaid for the benefit of the estate of a deceased person the damages recoverable for the benefit of the estate of that person:-(a) shall not include any exemplary damages;(b) in the case of a breach of promise to marry shall be limited to such damage, if any, to the estate of that person as flows from the breach of promise to marry;(c) where the death of that person has been caused by the act of omission which gives rise to the cause of action, shall be calculated without reference to any loss or gain to his estate consequent on his death, except that a sum in respect of funeral expenses may be included.See Rose v. Ford, (1937) 53 TLR 873.The right...