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Henry VIII Clause

Henry VIII Clause, is a provision occasionally found in legislation conferring delegated legislative power, giving the delegate the power to

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iv Immigrant Visa Source: Department of State. March 2007.

Actor sequitur forum rei (Branch, Max. 4)

Actor sequitur forum rei (Branch, Max. 4) [Lat.], The plaintiff follows the Court of the property.

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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. 41),

Affiliation

Vict. c. 65, and 36 Vict. c. 9), and the (English) Poor Law Amendment Act, 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 101), ss. 4-8, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Bastardy.' The law has been further amended by the (English)

Trust

income be-yond the statutory limits. By the (English) Trustee Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 59), s. 8, a trustee may under certain circumstances plead the Statute of Limitations in answer to a claim against him … testator has imposed upon him, Mahadeo Ramchandra v. Damodar Vishwanath, AIR 1957 Bom 218: (1957) 59 Bom LR 478. Means any arrangement whereby property is transferred with intention that it be administered for another's benefit is a

Act of Parliament

Statute of 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 … advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an Act passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911, a

Defender of the Faith

the repeal of 35 Hen. 8, c. 3, by 1 & 2 Ph. & M. c. 8, s. 4 (or 20), and the continuation of that repeal by 1 Eliz. c. 1, s. 4 (or 13). See … devil, and his dominions to the first invader,' without, however, expressly withdrawing the title; but by 35 Hen. 8, c. 3, the title was expressly given by Parliament, and has continued to be used by all succeeding

Judgment

Red Dye Works Co. Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income Tax, AIR 1963 SC 1484: (1963) Supp 1 SCR 871. [Income Tax Act, 1922, s. 66(5)] A judgment is an affirmation of a relation between a particular predicate … the pro-ceeding so far as the inquiring Court is concerned is a 'judgment' within the meaning of s. 494 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1898, State of Bihar v. Ram Naresh Pandey, AIR 1957 SC 389: (1957)

Riot Damages Act, 1886

any person sustaining damage by riot. From very early times (see the repealed acts scheduled to 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 27) compensation of some kind for damage by riot was recoverable from 'hundredors' (see HUNDREDORS),

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