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Retainer of debts

executor or administrator (not being a creditor-administrator, who is now precluded from retaining by the form of the administration bond) has a legal right to retain his own debt out of the legal or equitable [(English) Administration

search

searches, such as a search incident to an arrest, have been held to be valid without a warrant. administrative search : an inspection or search carried out under a regulatory or statutory scheme esp. in public or

order

from a superior authority see also executive order b : a ruling or command made by a competent administrative authority ;specif : one resulting from administrative adjudication and subject to judicial review and enforcement [an administrative may

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Cabinet

and S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001. Determines policy to be submitted to Parliament and exercises overall control over administration. Proceedings of cabinet are secret. It delegates considerable amount of its work to its committees since it is

Civil Law

suspended in the Comitium, and all parties were so well satisfied with the result of the first year's administration of the Decemviri, that it was resolved to continue the same sort of government for another year'new members

Code

See CIVIL LAW. The Code Napoleon, or Civil Code of France, pro-ceeding from the French Revolution, and the administration of Napoleon while First Consul, effected great changes in the laws of that country. Framed in the first

Costs

1934, s. 47, reproducing s. 11 of the County Courts, 1919, as amended by s. 20 of the Administration of Justice Act, 1925, which substituted a new s. 116 of the County Courts Act, 1888; the Slander

Testamentary expenses

Testamentary expenses, including the costs of an administration action [Penny v. Penny, (1879) 11 Ch D 440] As to whether the expression includes estate duty, see

Assent of personal representatives

the personal representatives, or representatives who have proved the will [s. 2(2), ibid.], or to whom letters of administration have been granted, and since the will of itself can only pass or affect equitable interests an assent

Real representative

The (English) Land Transfer act, 1897, (60 & 61 Vict. c. 65), reproduced and extended by the (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, established a real representative in the person of the executor or administrator of any

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