1877 - Law Dictionary Search Results
Scrip
Scrip, a certificate or schedule; also evidence of the right to obtain shares or debentures in a limited company, sometimes called 'scrip-certificate,' generally part paid and exchangeable for the certificate of share or the debenture upon...
Puisne
Courts to Westminster, other than the chiefs, were called puisne. By s. 5 of the (English) Judicature Act, 1877, a puisne judge of the High Court means, for the purposes of that Act, a judge of the
Rent
Rent [fr. reditus Lat.], a certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tenements corporeal; it may be regarded as of a two fold nature--first, as some-thing issuing out of the land, as a compensation for...
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Reservoirs
to the conditions imposed by the Acts. The (English) Limited Owners Reservoirs and Water Supply Further Facilities Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 31), gives limited owners power to form reservoirs and to charge their estates
Lodging houses, common
Lodging houses, common. The term is defined in the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, s. 235, as 'meaning a house (other than a public assistance institution), provided for the purpose of accommodating by night poor persons,...
Seaworthy
Seaworthy, a term applied to a ship, indicating that she is, in every respect, fit for her voyage. It is provided in all charter-parties that the vessel chartered shall be tight, staunch, and strong, well apparelled,...
Serjeants' inn
appointed before the commencement of the Judicature Acts. Their property in Chancery lane was sold by auction in 1877, and the proceeds, 57,000l., divided amongst the then members of the Society. See title SERJEANT.
Spiritualism
Spiritualism, the pretending to hold communication with spirits. The pretender may be convicted as a rogue and a vagabond and imprisoned for three months; and upon a second conviction he may be whipped, Monck v. Hilton,...
Subject to
Subject to, is an expression whereby limitation is expressed. The order is conclusive for all purposes, Ashok Leyland Ltd. v. State of Tamil Nadu, (2004) 3 SCC 1: (2004) 1 SCALE 224. Means 'under the condition...
Surrogate
to act in place of another, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1458. By the Legal practitioners Act, 1877 (repealed by, and see now Part IV. of the Solicitors Act, 1932 [22 & 23 Geo. 5, c.
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