1887 - Law Dictionary Search Results
Presumption of life or death
Presumption of life or death. Where a person is once shown to have been living, the law will in general presume that he is still alive, unless after a lapse of time considerably exceeding the ordinary...
Permit or suffer
Permit or suffer, means a lease sometimes provides a covenant that the lessee, his executors, administrators and assigns would not permit or suffer the premises to be sued for a noisome or offensive trade or business....
Super visum corporis
[Lat.] (upon view of the body). A coroner's inquest must generally be so held; but the Coroners Act, 1887, allows a view to be dispensed with on a second inquest.
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Westminster the second, Statute of
2 Reeves, c. 10, p. 163. Certain parts of this Act are repealed by Statute Law Revision Act, 1887.
Warrant officer
Warrant officer, Defined. [Act 14 of 1887, s. 2(1)(c)]
Turn, or Tourn
10. The tourn, which had long been obsolete, is formally abolished by s. 18 of the Sheriffs Act, 1887.
Truck Acts (1831 to 1896)
Vict. c. 46, and 59 & 60 Vict. c. 43), the Truck Act, 1831, the Truck Amendment Act, 1887, and the Truck Act, 1896, passed to prevent the payment of wages in goods instead of in money.
Treasure-trove
by fine or imprisonment. Coroners have jurisdiction to inquire of treasure-trove, under s. 36 of the Coroners Act, 1887, as theretofore, but not to inquire into any question of title as between the Crown and any other
Tenor
Tenor [spelt 'tenour' in s. 88 of the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882 (see MAKER)], sense contained; general course or drift. Tenor implies that a correct copy is set out, but the word effect alone implies...
Tenant
86. Tenant, includes a sub-tenant and self-cultivating lessee, but shall not include a present holder, Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887, ss. 5, 6, 7, 8; Punjab Settlement Manual, 1899, pp. 142. Tenant, is a word which standing by
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