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Delegated legislation
Committee considers them to determine whether they trespass unduly on personal rights and liberties. The regulations can be annulled by a motion to that effect in the House, The Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of
Desert
Desert, to 'desert' together with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means to desert the other party to a marriage without reasonable cause and without the consent, or against the will, of such party. [Parsi Marriage...
Disagreement
Disagreement, the refusal by a grantee, lessee, etc., to accept an estate, lease, etc., made to him: the annulling of a thing that had essence before. No estate can be vested in a person against his will,
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Dissolution of Marriage
Dissolution of Marriage. See DIVORCE.
District Court
District Court, means, in any area for which there is a city civil court, that court, and in any other area, the principal civil court of original jurisdiction, and includes any other civil court which maybe...
Distringas
Distringas (that you distrain), anciently called constringas, a writ addressed to the sheriff, and issued to effect various purposes. The cases in which it was used in Common Law proceedings may be thus stated:- (1) a...
Marriage, Promise of
Marriage, Promise of, need not be in writing, although an 'agreement in consideration of marriage' must be, by s. 4 of the Statute of Frauds. So it was decided, overruling an earlier decision to the contrary,...
Pre-contract
Pre-contract. Where one of the parties to a marriage was under a prior agreement to marry a third person, such prior agreement was called a pre-contract. It was a canonical impediment to the marriage of either...
Minor children
Minor children, means, in the case of sons of Native fathers, boys, who have not completed the age of sixteen years, and, in the case of daughters of Native fathers, girls who have not completed the...
Sequestration
Sequestration. This is a prerogative process (formerly confined to the Court of Chancery and the Courts of Probate and Divorce), addressed to certain commissioners empowering them to enter upon real estates, and sequester the rents, and...
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