1870 - Law Dictionary Search Results
Magna Carta
year is to be calculated as inclusive or exclusive of its last day. By the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23), escheat and forfeiture for treason or felony were abolished. The 23rd chapter
Limited Owners Residences Act
Act (English) (33 & 34 Vict. c. 56). This Act, as amended by the Limited Owners Residences Act, 1870, Amendment Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 84), enables the tenant for life of a settled estate
Incense
Incense. The ceremonial use of incense immediately before the celebration of the Holy Communion, so as to be preparatory or subsidiary to the celebration of the Holy Communion is unlawful, Summer v. Wix, (1870) LR 3...
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Pyx
held once at least in every year in which coins have been issued; see the (English) Coinage Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 10), s. 12. The trial takes place before a jury of members of
Implied contract
Implied contract. A contract which the law infers, from acts, circumstances, or relationships, as that an employer will pay the person employed what his labour was worth; or, as in Francis v. Cockrell, (1870) LR 5...
Hurdle
Hurdle, a sledge used to draw traitors to execution, disused by operation of the Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23), s. 31.
Public trustee
judicial trustee (see that title); be appointed administrator of the property of a convict under the Forfeiture Act, 1870; and he may also be appointed an executor and obtain a grant of probate (s. 5). He may
Sovereign
Chit.Stat., tit. 'Crown,' and KING. Also, a gold coin of the value of twenty shillings; see Coinage Act, 1870. 1. A person, body, or state vested with independent and Supreme authority 2. Ruler of an independent state,
Quartering traitors
the sovereign should think fit; but this portion of the Act is repealed by the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870, s. 31.
Tenant-right
1 Mill's Pol. Econ. 385. See 33 & 34 Vict. c. 46 [The Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870], 44 & 45 Vict. c. 49 (The Land Law (Ireland) Acts, 1881, and 19 Geo. 5,c. 14 (The
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