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Articles of the peace

shall think necessary, not being confined to a twelvemonth. See ss. 25, 26 of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, and PEACE, and for the procedure to exhibit Articles of the peace in the King's Bench Division of

Concealment

Concealment, to the injury or prejudice of another. This must amount, in order to be deemed a fraud or to be a ground for rescission of the contract, to be suppression or non-disclosure of facts, which...

Apportionment

Apportionment, a division of a whole into parts (usually unequal) proportioned to the rights of more claimants than one. It is either (1) Apportionment in respect of time, or (2) Apportionment in respect of estate. Apportionment...

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Appeal

Sessions, where the appeal is by way of retrial (see s. 19 of the (English) Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, also Summary Jurisdiction (Appeals) Act, 1933, and SESSIONS OF THE PEACE), from the County Courts to the Court

Adoptive Act of Parliament

'Burial.' The (English) Public Improvements Acts. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Public Improvements.' The (English) Infectious Diseases Notification Act, 1879--made general in England by Act of 1899: The Infectious Diseases Prevention Act, 1890 (all repealed): The (English) Public

Actual bodily harm

section, R. v. Clarence, (1888) 22 QBD 23. The expression is also used in the Dangerous Performances Acts, 1879 and 1897. See also BODILY HARM.

sandlot

speeches in the open sand lots about San Francisco as the sand lot constitution of California framed in 1879 under the influence of sand lot agitation

Land League

In Ireland a combination of tenant farmers and other organized with Charles Stewart Parnell as president in 1879 with a view to the reduction of farm rents and a reconstruction of the land laws

Gilbert

who wrote the music he wrote ldquoThe Sorcererrdquo 1877 ldquoH M S Pinaforerdquo 1878 ldquoThe Pirates of Penzancerdquo 1879 ldquoPatiencerdquo 1881 ldquoIolantherdquo 1883 ldquoThe Mikadordquo 1885 ldquoRuddygorerdquo 1887 ldquoThe Yeomen of the Guardrdquo 1888 ldquoThe Gondoliersrdquo 1889

General semantics

a doctrine and philosophical approach to language and its relationship to thought and behavior developed by Alfred Korzybski 1879 1950 which holds that the capacity to express ideas and thereby improve ones interaction with others and ones

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