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Civil Law

will be found to be the tenth of the first book; this is usually now cited I. i. 10, 12. (2) The Digest or Pandects, which are rules founded on the pure spirit of jurisprudence. The words

Hotchpot

lands so given into hotchpots. As to personality. The State of Distributions (22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 10), intended children to take equal shares of the goods and chattels of their intestate ancestor, and it considered

Residue

of an intestate's estate was provided for by the Statute of Distribution (22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 10), explained by 29 Car. 2, c. 3, and 1 Jac. 2, c. 17. the distribution of the estates

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Heriot

because he had no legal seisin at the time of his death, Copestake v. Hoper, (1908) 2 Ch 10. Originally a tribute to the lord of the manor of the horse or habiliments of the deceased tenant,

Distribution, Statute of

Distribution, Statute of (22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 10), now only applied to intestacies prior to 1926, repealed by (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925 (see WIDOW),

Unus Nullus Rule, The

one witness is equivalent to the testimony of none. See Best on Evidence, bk. 3, pt. 2, c. 10, and CORROBORATION. In our law corroboration is required in an action for breach of promise of marriage and

Stockjobbing Act

Stockjobbing Act (English) (7 Geo. 2, c. 8) (made perpetual by 10 Geo. 2, c. 8), which was repealed by 23 & 24 Vict. c. 28. Gambling transactions in stockjobbing

Registered user

for the time being registered as such under s. 49. [Trade Marks Act, 1999 (47 of 1999), s. 2 (1) (x)] Means a person who is for the time being registered as such under s. 25. [Semiconductor

Indian standard

such article or process and includes-- (i) any standard recognised by the Bureau under clause (b) of s. 10; and (ii) any standard established and published, or re-cognised, by the Indian Standards Institution and which is in … before the date of establishment of the Bureau. [Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986 (63 of 1986), s. 2 (g)]

Gavelet

of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent. Obsolete. The statute of Gavelet is 10 Edw. 2, 2 Reeves, c. xii., p. 298. A writ used in kent and London to recover rent

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