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Death Bed
by his predecessor. But the law is repealed by 34 & 35 Vict. c. 81, the Act 'to abolish Reductions ex capite Lecti in Scotland.' See REDUCTION EX CAPITE LECTI. A state of serious illness, sickness which
Customs
by Mr. Pitt in 1787, did much to remedy these among other inconvenien-ces. The method adopted was to abolish the existing duties on all articles, and to substitute in their stead one single duty on each article,
Colonial Laws (English)
not otherwise. By the same Act all colonial legislatures are empowered to establish courts of judicature, and to abolish and reconstitute the same, and to make laws respecting the constitution, powers and procedure of the legislature in
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Barnard's Act (English)
c. 8, repealed by 23 & 24 Vict. c. 38. The Act introduced by Sir John Barnard 'to abolish the infamous practice of stock-jobbing.'
Serjeant
audience enjoyed by the serjeants in the Court of Common Pleas, during term time, ineffectually attempted to be abolished by Royal Warrant in 1834 [see In the Matter of the Serjeants-at-law, (1840) 6 Bing NC 235], was
Tenure
common socage by the Law of Property Act, 1922, s. 136. (2) Tenure in burgage [burgus, Lat.] (now abolished, see infra) is where houses, or lands which were formerly the site of houses, in an ancient borough
Gavelkind
Gavelkind. A mode or rule of descent by custom abolished by the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 45(1)(a), in the case of all deaths after 1925 except
Husband and wife
the Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors Act), 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 30), almost completely abolished the property distinction between an unmarried and a married woman. See MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY. At Common Law, a
Electoral franchise
the year (8 Hen. 6, c. 7). Towards the end of the eighteenth century the residence qualification was abolished. The (English) Reform Act, 1832, extended the franchise to 10l. copyholders and to leaseholders for terms of years,
Pillory
and moveable boards, through which the heads and hands of criminals were put. The punishment of the pillory, abolished by 56 Geo. 3, c. 138, except for perjury, a person convicted for which was directed, by the
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