Skip to content

2 C - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Test Act

Test Act (25 Car. 2, c. 2), by which it was provided that all persons having any offices, civil or military (with the exception … usage of the Church of England. The Test Act, after having been extended by 1 Geo. 1, st. 2, c. 13, 2 Geo. 2, c. 31, and 9 Geo. 2, c. 26, was repealed by 9Geo. 4, c.

Bail

Administration Act, 1914, ss. 19-24, and 1925, s. 45. The Bill of Rights, 1 W. & M. sess. 2, c. 2, expressly enacts that excessive bail ought not to be required. By s. 5, sub-s. 2, of the

Employer

of s. 2 of the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972. [Equal Remunera-tion Act, 1976 (25 of 1976), s. 2 (c)] In relation to a dock worker, means the person by whom he is employed or to be employed … employed or to be employed as aforesaid. [Dock Workers (Regulation of Employ-ment) Act, 1948 (9 of 1948), s. 2 (c)] In relation to a dock worker, means the person by whom he is employed or is to be

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Yorkshire Registry Act, 1884

wide meaning of the term in s. 3 of the Act of 1884) in the North (8 Geo. 2, c. 6), East (6 Anne, c. 2), and West (2 & 3 Anne, c. 4, and 6 Anne, c.

Wills

will and testament or devise of the custody and tuition of any child, by virtue of 12 Car. 2, c. 24, or of 14 & 15 Car. 2 (Ireland), and to any other testamentary disposition, and also defines

Uniformity, Act of

Uniformity, Act of, (English) 14 Car. 2, c. 4, 'for the Uniformity of Public Prayers and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies and for

Tenure

last these military tenures, together with all their grievances, were destroyed at the Restoration. The statute 12 Car. 2, c. 24, enacted that the Court of award and liveries, and all wardships, liveries, primer seisins and ouster-lemains, values, … the will of their superior, et ideo dicuntur liberi. This tenure was not abolished by the 1 Car. 2, c. 24. Tenures in ancient demesne were, it has been said, of three kinds: (1) Tenures in ancient demesne

Newly set up establishment

Stat. West. I., 3 Edw. 1, c. 34; 2 Rich. 2, st. 1, c. 5; and 12 Rich. 2, c. 11; but all these three Acts have been repealed by the (English) Statute Law Revision Act, 1887 (50

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

may discharge, admit to bail, or remand the prisoner. The great (English) Habeas Corpus Act, 1679 (31 Car. 2, c. 2), did not newly establish the remedy for unjust imprisonment by writ of habeas corpus, but, reciting the

Abduction

person carried away is taken abroad the offence falls within the (English) Habeas Corpus Act, 1679 (31 Car. 2, c. 2), s. 11. (4) The removal of a ward of Court out of the jurisdiction: this is Contempt

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial