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Honorary Freemen
Boroughs Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. C. 29), by which the council of any municipal borough may admit to be honorary freemen of the borough persons of distinction, and any persons who have rendered eminent services
Hearing
the credibility of some one other than witness, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 725. Word hearing can admit of a very wide and liberal interpretation. It may include recording of evidence, consideration of arguments on some
Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum
a Court upon a habeas corpus may examine, and, according to the circumstances of the case, may discharge, admit to bail, or remand the prisoner. The great (English) Habeas Corpus Act, 1679 (31 Car. 2, c. 2),
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Executory trusts
will attach to the words expressive of the trusts a more liberal and enlarged construction than they would admit if applied either to the limitation of a legal estate or a trust executed, 1 Sand. Uses and
Entrenched clause
and Philip Laundry, p. 250. Any amendment of the Constitution necessitated by a legislation by Parliament to: (a) admit or establish a new State; (b) form a new State by separation of territories from any State or
Enclosed switch-station
Enclosed switch-station, means any premises or en-closure or part thereof, being large enough to admit the entrance of a person after the apparatus therein is in position, containing apparatus for switching, controlling or
Nominatim
patron presents his clerk before the bishop has taken any benefit of the lapse, he is obliged to admit such clerk, Plowd. 529. Also [see (English) Ballot Act, 1872; (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 55; Representation
Enclosed sub-station
Enclosed sub-station, means any premises or en-closure or part thereof, being large enough to admit the entrance of a person after the apparatus therein is in position, containing apparatus for trans-forming or converting
Disturber
Disturber. If a bishop refuses or neglect to examine or admit a patron's clerk, without reason assigned or notice given, he is styled a disturber by the law, and
Discovery
the plaintiff's case about to come on for trial, and which the defendant does not by his pleading admit. (2) The right of a plaintiff in equity to the benefit of the defendant's oath is limited to
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