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Distress

property or interest in the goods; (7) Woollen, cotton, or silk looms, by 6 & 7 Vict. c. 40; (8) Gas-meters, being the property of a gas company incorporated by statute, by 10 Vict. c. 15, s.

Dower

which shall have been absolutely disposed of by her husband in his lifetime or by his Will (s. 4). A widow is not entitled to dower out of any land of her husband when, in the deed by

Joint-tenancy

not the whole of an undivided moiety, though since the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27), s. 12, the possession of one joint-tenant is no longer to be deemed the

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Processing

filleting etc., Regional Executive, Kerala Fishermen's Welfare Fund Board v. Fancy Food, 1995 (4) JT (SC) 15: (1995) 4 SCC 341. (See Maine Products Export Development Authority Act, 1972) Means a sequence of operations of changes under-gone.

Married women's property

use. A much greater step forward was taken by the (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 75), which repealed and consolidated with important amendments, the Acts of 1870 and 1874. S. 1

Vagrants

now in force, embodying, mitigating, and extending numerous former provisions, is the (English) Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83). It has been extended by the Vagrancy Act, 1838, as to re-commitment on failure to prosecute,

Uses

32 Hen. 8, c. 1. (3) They were transferable, although at law they were mere choses in action. (4) A cestui que use in possession of the land was deemed a tenant at will only, for he had … of a trust to permit and suffer a party to receive and take the net rents and profits. (4) A second use, or a use upon a use. The Common Law judges determined that the statute could only

Preamble

or in a Bill to give effect to international conventions, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1977, p. 462. Preamble, introduction, preface; also the beginning of an Act of Parliament, etc., serving to portray the interests of

Modesty

to impure or coarse suggestions, Oxford English Dictionary (1993 Edn.); Raju Pandurang Mahale v. State of Maharashtra, (2004) 4 SCC 371. Modesty, as freedom from coarseness, indelicacy or indecency; a regard for propriety in dress, speech or

King

c. 11), which constituted one kingdom of Great Britain; and the Union with Ireland Act, 1800 (39 & 40 Geo. 3, c. 67), as varied by the Government of Ireland Act,1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c.

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