1888 - Law Dictionary Search Results
Photographs
Photographs. By the (English) Copyright Act, 1911, s. 5, the author of a work is the first owner of the copyright therein, but where in the case of a photograph the plate or other original was...
Jurat
9, 13, 14; and for the form in lieu of jurat where affirmation is made, see Oaths Act, 1888, s. 4. Also an officer in the nature of an alderman sworn for the government of many corporations.
Judge
appointed, under (English) County Courts Act, 1934, s. 4, replacing s. 8 of the (English) County Courts Act, 1888, by the Lord Chancellor, their number being limited to sixty, the qualification being at least seven years' standing
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Petty-bag Office
abolition of the office of Clerk of the Petty Bag, and the transfer of his duties, and in 1888, the last holder of the office dying, it ceased to exist. The Common Law jurisdiction of the Court
Reward
urgently requested to offer a reward for the discovery of a series of murders in White chapel in 1888, steadily refused to do so. Advertising a reward for the return of property stolen or lost with the
Preamble
extended to very great length, are now very frequently discontinued; and in Statute Law Revision Acts passed since 1888, Parliament has repealed preambles of statutes still in force, but Lord Halsbury, L.C., in Powell v. Kempton Park
Sessions of the peace
to the administrative business of quarter sessions, transferred to the county councils by the (English) Local Government Act, 1888, see COUNTY COUNCIL.
Wrong
Wrong, the privation of right, an injury, a designed or known detriment. See TORT, and Addison or Clerk and Lindsell on Torts. The maxim that 'No man can take advantage of his own wrong' means that...
Wear and Tear, Reasonable
Wear and Tear, Reasonable, the waste of substance by the ordinary use of it. This expression commonly occurs in connection with leases, in which the lessee agrees to return the subject-matter of the lease at the...
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...
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