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Loan societies
They are exempt from the provisions of the Money Lenders Act, 1900. By the (English) Loan Societies Act, 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 110 (continued by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 19, and made perpetual by
Husband and wife
Husband and wife. the Common Law treated them, for most purposes, as one person, giving, with exceptions comparatively unimportant, the whole of a woman's property to her husband for his absolute use, and a husband could...
Veto
and Bishops in regard to proceedings and inquiries relating to certain offences, see the (English) Church Discipline Act, 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 86), and (English) Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c.
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Vaccination
& 17 Vict. c. 100, gratuitous vaccination having been previously provided for in the various enactments, dating from 1840, on the subject prior to 1867, all of which were repealed by the Vaccination Act of that year
Tribal community
community' has a wider connotation than the expression 'tribe', N.E. Horo v. Jahanara Jaipal Singh, AIR 1972 SC 1840 (1850): (1972) 1 SCC 771: (1972) 3 SCR 361
Serjeant
Serjeant [fr. serviens, Lat.], used in several senses:- A feudal tenure by knight service due only to king, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. (1) Serjeants-at-law, or of the coif (servientes ad legem), otherwise called serjeants counter,...
Rate
is not rateable, and stock in trade is expressly excepted by the temporary (English) Poor Rate Exemption Act, 1840, made permanent by the Expiring Laws Act, 1922. The multiplicity of rates leviable by public bodies for public
Profit a prendre
Profit a prendre, ' right for a man, in respect of his tenement, to take some profit out of the tenement of another man. Except in the case of a copyholder no claim of a profit...
Press
of Stockdale v. Hansard, (1839) 9 A&E 1, led to the passing of the (English) Parliamentary Papers Act, 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 9), which Act made reports published by order of Parliament absolutely privileged, and
Post office
1 & 2 Vict. cc. 97, 98; 3 & 4 Vict. c. 96 (the Post Office (Duties) Act, 1840, which established penny postage), and many other Acts, which are consolidated by the Post Office Act, 1908, as
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