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Authorised unit trust, means, as respects an accounting period, a unit trust scheme in the case of which an order under the Financial Services Act, 1986 (UK) is in force during the whole or part of that accounting period, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 5(1), 4th Edn., para 212, p. 173....
Colonial Stock Acts (English)
Colonial Stock Acts (English). Colonial stocks were not authorised as trustee investments by the Trustee Act, 1893, but by the Colonial Stock Acts of 1877, 1892, 1900 and 1934. Colonial stocks registered in the United Kingdom, and with respect to which certain prescribed conditions have been observed, are (unless expressly forbidden by the instrument of trust: Trustee Act, 1925, s. 1 (o) available as investments for trustees; see Colonial Stock Act, 1900 (63 & 64 Vict. c. 62), and subsequent Acts; Re Maryon-Wilson, (1912) 1 Ch 55...
Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in a foreign country complies with these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to English law, Nachimson v. Nachimson, 1930, P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an i...
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