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Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923

expiration of twelve months from the end of the then current year of tenancy. There are certain exceptions. 8. Distress (ss. 34-37).--A landlord may not distrain for rent which became due more than one year before making … Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923 (English) (13 & 14 Geo. 5, cc. 9 and 25). By a series of statutes commencing with the

Instrument

that the word 'instrument' did not include an award, Purshottam H. Jdye v. V.B. Pottdar, AIR 1966 SC 856: (1966) 2 SCR 353. The expression 'instrument' certainly covers a Trust Deed. Som Prakash Rekhi v. Union of … a record, charter, deed or transfer, or agreement. By s. 205(1)(viii.) of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, 'Instrument' (for the purposes of the Act) 'does not include a Statute, unless the Statute cre-ates a Settlement.'

Jus

it; also respectively opposed to one another by the terms Res Juris Humani et Divini (Instit. Ii. tit. 1). As the components of a single generalization, 'juris-prudential.' The terms Jus Scriptum and Non Scriptum, as explained in … of the Naturalis Ratio, common to all mankind, which is still more clearly expressed in another passage (i. 89), where he uses the expression 'omnium civitatum jus' as equivalent to the Jus Gentium, and as founded on

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power

used in pl. commerce power often cap C&P : the power delegated to Congress under Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution to regulate commerce esp. among the states see also commerce clause concurrent power : … power 1 : capability of acting or of producing an effect [parties of unequal bargaining ] 2 a : authority

Uses

the well-known maxim, 'quitas sequitur legem. (2) They were devisable even before the Statute of Wills, 32 Hen. 8, c. 1. (3) They were transferable, although at law they were mere choses in action. (4) A cestui

National insurance

has been consolidated again by the (English) National Health Insurance Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 32), amends and repeals the whole of the Acts passed in 1920, 1922, 1924 and 1928. The

Tithe Rent-Charge

occupier any sum he may have paid the tithe-owner on account of tithe. By the same Act (s. 8), a remission of tithe rent-charge for any one year exceeding two-thirds of the annual value of the land … the third personal. This commutation was effected by a procedure set on foot by the (English) Tithe Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 71), amended by subsequent Acts. See Chitty's Stat., tit. 'Tithe Rent-Charge.' The

Pension

has been repealed by the (English) Consolidating Old Age Pensions Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 31). These conditions are contained in s. 2 of the Act of 1936, as follows:- 2. The

King

and consented to, the enactment thereof. The King has all spiritual and ecclesiastical jurisdiction by virtue of s. 8 of the Elizabethan Act of Supremacy, 1 Eliz. c. 1 (though Henry VIII.'s Act of Supremacy, 26 Hen.

Gaming or gambling

any game of chance, as cards, dice, etc., for money, or money's worth. The still unrepealed 33 Hen. 8, c. 9, prohibits the keeping of any common house for dice, cards, or any unlawful games, under penalties … so keeping the house, and 6s. 8d. for every time of playing therein; and the (English) Gaming Act, 1738 (12 Geo. 2, c. 28) (applied by the Gaming Act, 1739 (13 Geo. 2, c. 19), to all

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