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Retainer of debts

Retainer of debts. An executor or administrator (not being a creditor-administrator, who is now precluded from retaining by the form of the administration bond) has a legal right to retain his own debt out of the...

Town

Town, denotes the existence of houses in close proximity, concentration of a large number of people in a comparatively small area, engagement of a bulk of the population in non-agricultural activities, Baliat Sheikh v. State of...

Tout

of revenue-offices, or railway stations, landing stages, lodging places or other places of public resort. (Legal Practitioners Act, 1879, s. 3)

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Testamentary expenses

Testamentary expenses, including the costs of an administration action [Penny v. Penny, (1879) 11 Ch D 440] As to whether the expression includes estate duty, see Porte v. Williams, (1911) 1 Ch 188, and cases there...

Summary jurisdiction

in particular instances by very numerous particular statutes, is generally regulated by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, 1848 and 1879. Several amendments have been made in the law by the Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914, and Criminal Justice

Sue and labour clause

Sue and labour clause. The name given to a clause in a policy of marine insurance which was introduced to make it clear that the assured and his agents or servants, e.g., master and crew, can...

Juvenile offenders

indictable offences, see the Third Schedule of the Act and s. 11 of the (English) Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 49). See also CHILDREN; INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS; REFORMATORY SCHOOLS.

Royal Courts of Justice

statutory name, by (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 222, replacing s. 28 of the (English) Jud. (Officers) Act, 1879, of the Law Courts, on the north side of the Strand, between St. Clement Danes Church and Chancery

Royal Assent

Royal Assent. The act by which the Crown agrees to a bill which has already passed both Houses is called 'The Royal Assent,' which may be given by the sovereign in person in the House of...

Masters of the Supreme Court

in the King's Bench Division, officials, seven in number, deriving their title from the (English) Jud. (Officers) Act, 1879 (see now Jud. Act, 1925, ss. 106, 122, Sched. III., Part I.), and filling the places of the

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