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Issue

the case of a deed, see Norton on Deeds. Now the rule in Shelley's case (q.v.), having been abolished by s. 131, in instruments made or in wills upon death after 1925, 'issue' will be construed as

Land Drainage Act, 1930

as many other Acts relating to drainage, and consolidates the existing law with amendments. Commissioners of Sewers are abolished. A system is set up to provide for the care of all watercourses whereby land is drained. There

Marriage

father, mother, or guardian shall previously consent to the marriage if by license (see Banns). The Act further abolished the suits in the Ecclesiastical Court to compel marriage 'in facie ecclesi',' which abolition made more common the

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Oath

the oath shall be administered in any manner which is now lawful. The (English) Statutory Declarations Act, 1835, abolishes unnecessary and extra-judicial oaths, and empowers any justice of the peace, notary public, or other officer authorised to

Occupancy

Re Michell, Moore v. Moore, (1892) 2 Ch 96. The title of common occupancy is now, in effect abolished, for it is enacted by the Wills Act, 1837, s. 3, that an estate pur autre vie, of

Outlawry

of the process of the King's Court. Outlawry has long been obsolete in civil proceedings, and is formally abolished by the Civil Procedure Acts Repeal Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 59), in civil proceedings. In

Overseers of the poor

Overseers of the poor (now abolished by (English) Rating and Valuation Act, 1925 (c. 90), ss. 1, 64), formerly public officers created by the

Particular tenants, Alienation by

estate to him in remainder or reversion, who was entitled to enter immediately. Fines and recoveries having been abolished and a feoffment having no longer a tortious operation (English) (Real Property Act, 1845, s. 4), a tenant,

Real action

except writ of right of dower, or writ of dower unde nihil habet, quare impedit, and ejectment, were abolished. By the C. L. P. Act, 1860, s. 26, the procedure in the excepted actions of dower, etc.,

Poor laws

overseers by virtue of the Local Government Act, 1894. Overseers of the Poor and Boards of Guardians were abolished (overseers from 1st April, 1927, boards of guardians from 1st April, 1930, except in the Scilly Islands) by

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