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Tenure

Tenure, cannot be equated with 'terms and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab University v. Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H...

Treasury Bill

are bills issued by the Treasury payable not later than twelve months after date. (English) Treasury Bills Act, 1877. See FUNDS; EXCHEQUER BILLS.

University

1856, by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 88, other commissioners with the like powers as to Cambridge. In 1877, by 40 & 41 Vict. c. 48, commissioners were appointed with the like powers as to both Oxford

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Vagrants

Vagrants, sturdy beggars; vagabonds. The Act which is now in force, embodying, mitigating, and extending numerous former provisions, is the (English) Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83). It has been extended by the Vagrancy...

Waiver

Waiver, in an intentional relinquishment of a known right. There can be waiver unless the person against whom the waiver is claimed had full knowledge of his rights and of facts enabling him to take effectual...

Wreck

wreck or goods cast on shore, see s. 37 of that Act. The (English) Removal of Wrecks Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 16), gave power to harbour and conser-vancy authorities to remove wrecks obstructing navigation;

Lords Justices of Appeal

Justices of Appeal, the title of the ordinary judges of the Court of Appeal, by the Jud. Act, 1877, s. 4 (see now Jud. Act, 1925, s. 6 (3)). As to the functions of the Lords Justices

Lammas lands

Lammas lands. Lands over which there is a several right of either arable or meadow crop but as soon as the crop has been taken a commonable right of pasturage arises generally from about Lammas (1st...

Locke's Act

Vict. c. 113), the Real Estates Charges Act, 1854 (amended by the Real Estate Charges Act, 1867 and 1877 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 69, and 40 & 41 Vict. c. 34)), whereby the heir or devisee

Drainage of house let furnished

Drainage of house let furnished. In letting a fur-nished house it is an established rule that it is fit for occupation, and in Wilson v. Finch-Hatton, (1877) 2 Ex D 336, this rule was applied to...

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