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Licensed victualler
Licensed victualler. The holder of the general publican's licence, under the Licensing (Consolidation) Act,1910 (10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5, c. 24), is the licensed victualler par excellence, but the term may be applied to...
Liquor licences
of licences for the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquor (see INTOXICATING LIQUORS). The (English) Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, very largely increased these duties, and for a publican's licence and a beerhouse licence a duty of half
Mercantile agent
Mercantile agent. The Factors Act, 1839 (English) (52 & 53 Vict. c. 45), s. 1, defines a mercantile agent as 'a mercantile agent having in the customary course of his business as such agent authority either...
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Mineral rights duty
Mineral rights duty. The (English) Finance (1909-10)Act, 1910 (10 Edw. 7, c. 8), ss. 20 and 21 imposes a duty of 1s. in the ' on
Money of account, money of measurement money of payment
the Bill without alteration, it was passed by the House of Lords and became the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910. As to money-bills under the Parliament Act, 1911, see ACT OF PARLIAMENT. And as to the temporary collection
Motor spirit
Motor spirit is defined by s. 84 of the (English) Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, as:- Any inflammable hydrocarbon (including any mixture of hydrocarbons and any liquid containing hyrdocarbon), which is capable of
Murder
Murder [fr. morthor, morthen, Sax.; murdrum, Low Lat.]. It is thus defined by Coke (3 Inst. 47): 'When a person of sound memory and discretion unlawfully killeth any reasonable creature in being, with malice aforethought, either...
Protection order
43 (Ireland). See DESERTION; MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY. 2. An order obtained under s. 88 of the Licensing Act, 1910, from the justices authorizing the transferee of a justices' licence to carry on business and to sell intoxicating
Seduction
Seduction, means the offence that occurs when a man entices a woman of previously chaste character to have unlawful intercourse with him by means of persuasion, solicitation, promises or bribes, or other means not involving force,...
Quantum meruit
Quantum meruit (so much as he has earned), an action on the case, express or implied, grounded on a promise to pay the plaintiff for doing a thing as much as he has earned or merited....
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