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Coke, Sir Edward, often, but incorrectly, styled Lord Coke, born in 1551, called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1578, counsel in Shelley's case (see that title), Speaker of the House of Commons, Solicitor-General and Attorney-General under Queen Elizabeth, knighted by James I. shortly after his accession in 1603, made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1606 and of the King's Bench in 1613, 'taking particular delight,' writes Lord Campbell in his Lives of the Chief Justices, 'in styling himself ' Chief Justice of England,''was deprived of office and committed to the Tower by Charles I., for his support of the Petition of right. Coke was bitterly hostile to the injunction of equity. The controversy between Coke and Lord Ellesmere, the Chancellor, was acute. James I. referred the whole matter to Bacon, the Attorney-General, and others learned in the law. Acting upon the recommendations of this committee of counsel, James I. decided the matter in favour of Chancery. It should be menti...
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Sir, the word 'sir' is synonymous with 'kamat' and 'ziraat', and means private lands of the proprietor, Harihar Prasad Singh v. Deonarayan Prasad, AIR 1956 SC 305 (309): 1956 SCR 1. [Bihar Tenancy Act, 1885 (8 of 1885), s. 116]...
Zirat, Kamat, sir
Zirat, Kamat, sir, the word 'sir' is synonymous with 'kamat' and 'zirat', and means private lands of the proprietor, Harihar Prasad Singh v. Deonarain Prasad, AIR 1956 SC 305....
Bovill's (Sir W.) Act
Bovill's (Sir W.) Act, an Act to amend the law relating to the procedure in petitions of right, 23 & 24 Vict. c. 34. Also, an Act relating to partnership, 28 & 29 Vict. c. 86, now repealed but substantially re-enacted by the Partnership Act, 1890. It established the principle that participation in profits does not in itself constitute partnership, in accordance with, Cox v. Hickman, (1860) 8 HLC 268....
Brooke's (Sir Robert) abridgement
Brooke's (Sir Robert) abridgement, a work printed in 1568, and an improvement on the plan of Statham and Fitzherbert. The cases are here arranged with more strict regard to the title; but the order in which they are strung together is very little better, being generally guided only by the chronology, Foster....
Hale, Sir M
Hale, Sir M., author of a work on the Pleas of the Crown. See PLEAS OF THE CROWN...
Keating's (Sir H.S.) Act
Keating's (Sir H.S.) Act, (English) for summary procedure on bills of exchange (18 & 19 Vict. c. 67). Superseded by (English) R.S.C., Ord. III., r. 6, and repealed (with savings for inferior courts by s. 7) by the Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act, 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 49), writs under it having been done away with by R.S.C., Ord. II., r. 6. It has been repealed as regards the County Court by the (English) County Courts Act, 1919....
Malins' (Sir Richard) Act (English)
Malins' (Sir Richard) Act (English).-The Married Women's Reversionary Interest Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 57), enabling married women to dispose of reversionary interests in personalty; see (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, ss. 167 and 169....
Peel's (Sir R.) Acts
Peel's (Sir R.) Acts (English) (6 & 7 Vict. c. 37), otherwise called 'The (English) New Parishes Act,' 1843, amended by the (English) New Parishes Act of 1844 and 1856, making better provision for the spiritual care of populous parishes, by the establishment of district churches therein; and 7 & 8 Geo. 4, cc. 27-29, abolishing benefit of clergy, and otherwise amending the criminal law....
Turner's (Sir George) Act
Turner's (Sir George) Act (English) (13 & 14 Vict. c. 35), providing for the statement of a special case inequitable matters, abolished by Rule of Court in 1880. See SPECIAL CASE....
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