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Mercantile Law Amendment Act, 1856 (English)

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Marriage

Marriage Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 85), amended by the (English) Marriage and Registration Act, 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 119), all, whether Roman Catholics, Presbyterians, or others, being treated on the same

Palmer's Act

Palmer's Act, the (English) Central Criminal Court Act, 1856 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 16), enabling a person accused of a crime committed out of the jurisdiction

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Settled land

275; Re Lord Wimborne & Browne (1904) 1 Ch 537; Wolstenholme & Cherry, Conveyancing, etc., Acts. Prior to 1856 settled estates could not be sold or leased except under the authority of some power in the settlement

Surety bond

Foxall, (1872) LR 7 QB 666, and see Partnership Act, 1890, s. 18; also MERCANTILE LAW AMENDMENT ACT, 1856; GUARANTY.

Gretna green marriage

blacksmith; as to the validity of such marriages, see Hubback on Succession. But by the Marriage (Scotland) Act, 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 96), s. 1, after 31st December,1856, no marriage contracted in Scotland by declaration,

Packing

False packing of hay and straw in the metropolis is penal under the (English) Hay and Straw Act, 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 114), which inflicts a penalty of 10l. It only applies to the County

Letters of marque

benefit of all the prizes taken by her Majesty' ships to the captors. On the 16th of April, 1856, the plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, Austria, France, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, and Turkey assembled in congress at Paris, signed

Life-peerage

even with the usual writ of summons to the House, Resolution of the Committee for Privileges, February 22, 1856. But see LORDS OF APPEAL IN ORDINARY.

Limitation of actions and prosecutions

1874, as to real property, and see ss. 10 to 14 of the (English) Mercantile Law Amendment Act, 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 97), as to personal actions under the statutes there referred to and other

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