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Notice to quit
Notice to quit. Where there is a tenancy from year to year subsisting, it can only be put an end to by notice to quit, which may be given by either party, and must be given...
Metropolitan Police Magistrates
London, South Western, West Ham, Willesden. See Metropolitan Police Act, 1829; (English) Metropolitan Police Courts Acts, 1839 and 1840; (English) Stipendiary Magistrates Act, 1858, and numerous other Acts; see Chitty's Statutes. Any person aggrieved by the conviction
Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in...
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Letters of request
consent from the intended defendant, 1 Hagg. Eccl. R. 4, note (a). See also (English) Church Discipline Act, 1840 (3 & 4Vict. c. 86), s. 13, by which a bishop may send a case by letters of
Lapse
Lapse [fr. lapsus, Lat.], error; failing in duty. (1) A benefice is said to lapse when the patron does not exercise the right of presentation within six calendar months (182 days) after the avoidance of the...
Grammar Schools
and in which, except under the orders of a Court of Equity, under the (English) Grammar Schools Act, 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 77), the teaching of one or both of these languages, in accordance with
Schooner
rig Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner About 1840 longer vessels with three masts fore and aft rigged came into use and since that time vessels with
Fleet-books
The books are now deposited in the office of the Registrar-General, pursuant to the (English) Non-Parochial Registers Act, 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 92), ss. 6, 23, Taylor on Evid., s. 1430; Hubback on Succession, p.
Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England
in Council. Church Estate Commissioners are appointed ex officio members of this corporation. See (English) amending Acts of 1840, 1841, 1850, 1860, and 1873 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 113; 4 & 5 Vict. c. 39; 13
Dean
of chapters of the new foundation, who are appointed by the royal letters-patent. The (English) Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 113), provides that the old deaneries (except in Wales) shall thenceforth be in
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