1884 - Law Dictionary Search Results
Great Seal
Articles of Union), within that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland. See Great Seal Acts, 1880 and 1884. See now IRELAND and statutes there cited. As to forging these seals, see Forgery Act, 1913, s. 5.
Gaming or gambling
Gaming or gambling, the playing any game of chance, as cards, dice, etc., for money, or money's worth. The still unrepealed 33 Hen. 8, c. 9, prohibits the keeping of any common house for dice, cards,...
Necessity, homicide by
Necessity, homicide by, a species of justifiable homicide, because it arises from some unavoidable necessity, without any will, intention, or desire, and without any inadvertence or negligence in the party killing, and therefore without any shadow...
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Necessaries
Necessaries, a relative term, not strictly limited to such things as are absolutely requisite for support and subsistence, but to be construed liberally, and varying with the state and degree, the rank, fortune, and age of...
Rent
Hen. 6, c. 7, but this kind of qualification was abolished by the Representation of the People Act, 1884, s. 4. As to the period of limitation after which the right of recovering a rent-charge is barred,
Occupier
as 'inhabitant occupier' and entitled to the parliamentary franchise, under the Representation of the People Acts, 1867 and 1884, now a person liable to pay rates by reason of occupation of premises under the (English) Rating and
Sessions of the peace
Corrupt practices at elections (English) Corrupt and Illegal Practices Act, 1883, s. 53, and (English) Municipal Elections Act, 1884, ss. 30, 35, 36). (23) Indictable offences against the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885. (24) Misdemeanours under
Wager
Wager, a contract by A. to pay money to B. on the happening of a given event, in consideration of B. paying money to him on the event not happening; and see the elaborate definition of...
Vir et uxor sunt quasi unica persona
Vir et uxor sunt quasi unica persona, etc. Co. Litt. 112.-(Man and wife are, as it were, one person, etc.) Consequently if lands be given to A. and B. (husband and wife) and C., a third...
Vice and Immorality, Proclamation against
Vice and Immorality, Proclamation against, made until its abrogation by Order in Council of June 26th, 1884, at the opening of Assizes and Quarter Sessions. First issued by William III. in 1797, and issued in
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