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Actio personalis moritur cum persona.
if he who did the battery or the other die, the action is gone' (Noy, 9th Edn., p. 20). This maxim states the general rule that actions of tort are destroyed by death of either the injured
Adoption
Adoption, an act by which a person adopts as his own the child of another. Until recently there was no law of adoption in this country though it exists in other countries, as France and Germany,...
Affirmation
to take an oath. See (English) Common Law Procedure Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 125), s. 20; 24 & 25 Vict. c. 66 (criminal proceedings); 30 & 31 Vict. c. 35, s. 8 (jurors); and
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Age
21 ibid. A married infant can give a receipt for income. As to marriage settlements by male of 20 or female of 17, see MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT, 1 Co. Litt. 78; Bro. Abr, 'Age.' For an infant's rights
Arches, Court of
by the Court of Probate Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 77). The Judicature Act, 1925, s. 20, vests the jurisdiction of 1857 in the present Court. By the Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874 (37 &
Army (UK)
Army (UK) [fr. armee, Fr.], the military force of a country. From1689 to 1879, the army was regulated by Annual Mutiny Acts usually expiring in April, and by the 'Articles of War' which those Acts empowered...
Asyium
1922, where the term meant an asylum provided by any local authority under those Acts, but by s. 20 of the (English) Mental Treatment Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 23), these asylums are to
Approved securities
trustee may invest money under clause (a), clause (b), clause (bb), clause (c) or clause (d) of s. 20 of the Indian Trusts Act, 1882; (ii) such of the securities authorised by the Central Government under clause
Births, Marriages, and Deaths
days. By s. 10 a corresponding obligation to register a death is imposed upon relatives, etc. By s. 203 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, births of any child alive or dead after the twenty-eighth week
Blindness
any of the following conditions, namely:-(i) total absence of sight; or (ii) visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (snellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses; or (iii) limitation of the field of vision subtending an
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