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Dower

without regaining testamentary capacity or before his committee or receiver was discharged, see (English) A.E. Act, 1925, ss. 45(1)(c) and 51 (2), or in the construction of equitable interests under s. 130, (English) Law of Property Act,

Toll

right of entry. See (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27), s. 39. 1. A sum of money paid for use of something esp. The consideration paid to use a public

Formedon

in-tail on a discontinuance. It was of three kinds: (1) in descender; (2) in remainder; (3) in reverter, 3 Reeves, 4. Abolished by the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27),

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House of Commons

Anne, c. 5, by allowing personal property to count fixed at 600l. a year for a county, and 300l. a year for a borough member, was abolished in 1858 by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 26. Payment … 7th Edn., p. 744. Property Qualification.--The property qualification of members, which was by 1 & 2 Vict. c. 48, amending 9 Anne, c. 5, by allowing personal property to count fixed at 600l. a year for a

Notary or Notary Public

and in London he must be free of the Scriveners' Company. See 25 Hen. 8, c. 27, ss. 3, 4; the (English) Public Notaries Acts, 1801, 1833, and 1843 (41 Geo. 3, c. 79, 3 & 4 Wm. … 27, ss. 3, 4; the (English) Public Notaries Acts, 1801, 1833, and 1843 (41 Geo. 3, c. 79, 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 70, and 6 & 7 Vict. c. 90); and consult Brooke on the Office, etc.,

Riot

provisions of the (English) Riot Act is fine and imprisonment to which hard labour may, by 3 Geo. 4, c. 114, be superadded. As to riots at elections, see 2 Wm., c. 45, s. 70, and 5 … c. 5, more than ten persons coming to present a petition to the King, and by 57 Geo. 3, c. 19, more than fifty persons near Westminster when Parliament is sitting, constitute a riot. The punishment for

Brougham's (Lord) Acts (English)

Brougham's (Lord) Acts (English). The best known of them are the Beer Act of 1830 (11 Geo. 4, 8 1 Wm. 4, c. 64), the Judicial Committee Act of 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. … County Court Act of 1846, the repealed Act for shortening the language of Acts of Parliament (13 & 34 Vict. c. 21), for which ss. 1, 3 of the Interpretation Act, 1889, are now substituted, and the

Fine

record, founded on a supposed previously existing right, abolished by the Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74). In every fine, which was the compromise of a fictitious suit and resembled the

Forfeiture

felony, murder, self-murder, pr'munire, and striking or threatening a judge. But the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23), enacted that no conviction, etc., for treason or felony, or felo de se, shall cause … will avoid this forfeiture. By the (English) Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 42), s. 1, land assured to or acquired by or on behalf of any corporation in mortmain otherwise than

Forgery

but most forgeries have been made felony by statute. Many of these statutes were consolidated by 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 66, repealed and replaced by the Forgery Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. … party's own, by a fictitious name, was held not to be forgery, Reg. v. Martin, (1879) 5 QBD 34. The act of fraudulently making a false document or altering a real one to be used as if

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