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Huscans
Huscans, buskins, 4 Edw. 4, c. 7.
Escheat
or of any person considered or adopted as part of his family, as pointed out by 59 Geo. 4, c. 94. See Hubback on Succession, ch. iv. The (English) Land Transfer Act, 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c.
Marriage
a minor at the time of his marriage, though he then swore he was 21. Afterward 3 Geo. 4, c. 75, validated all such marriages by license without consent where the parties had subsequently lived together until the … been published or obtained. Church of England marriages are regulated by the (English) Marriage Act, 1823 (4 Geo. 4, c. 76), which requires publication of banns on three successive Sundays before marriage in the church of the parish
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Limitation of actions and prosecutions
Limitation Act, 1623, and the principal succeeding ones, the Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 42), the (English) Civil Procedure Act (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27) [see Read v. Price, (1909) … Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 42), the (English) Civil Procedure Act (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27) [see Read v. Price, (1909) 2 KB 724], and 37 & 38 Vict. c. 57, the (English)
Act of Parliament
Distribution (22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 10), or the Fines and Recoveries Act (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74); others from their initial words, as the statute Quia emptores or De donis (see those titles); others … passed, together with the chapter or particular Act, according to its numerical order, e.g., 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74, the chapter, if the Act be a local or personal one, being printed in Roman figures, e.g.,
Copyhold
Subject to any such custom, the alterations effected by the (English) Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106), are applicable to the species of tenure. (6) Copyholds are alienated by surrender, according to general custom, … any number of years. (8) Copyholds are liable to all sorts of debts, by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 104, and the (English) Judgments Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 110). (9) The widow of a
Affirmation
to make it was an indulgence at first confined to the people called Quakers, and Moravians (9 Geo. 4, c. 32, s. 1; 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 49), and to Separatists (3 & 4 Wm. 4, … to the people called Quakers, and Moravians (9 Geo. 4, c. 32, s. 1; 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 49), and to Separatists (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 82), but was afterwards extended to all persons
Distress
first accrued; but (by s. 42 of the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27) no arrears of rent can be recovered by distress but within six years next after the same
Charitable uses and trusts
moneys charged thereon to the trustees of the British Museum for the benefit of that institution (5 Geo. 4, c. 39 s. 3); or to the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty (2 & 3 Anne, c. 11, s.
Constable
two or more justices of the peace under the (English) Special Constables Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 41), on particular occasions, upon it being made to appear to them on the oath of any credible
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