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Master of the Faculties

provincial Courts of Canterbury and York appointed under s. 7 of the (English) Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874, became ex officio Master of the Faculties on the first vacancy occurring after the passing of that Act.

Master of the Rolls

Masters in Chancery, of whom there were eleven others, including the Accountant-General. The Master of the Rolls subsequently became a judge of the Court of Chancery, who ranked next to the Lord Chancellor, and had the keeping

Money land

Act, 1925, s. 75(5)] Before 1926, money agreed or directed to be laid out in land, so fully became land as, 1stly, not to be personal assets; 2ndly, to be subject to the curtesy of the husband,

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Masters of the Common Law Courts

30, and their duties were to tax costs, compute damages, attend the judges in court, etc. These officers became, under the Judicatures Act, officers of the Supreme Court, and were attached to the Division of the High

Middlesex Registration of Deeds

of the register as from the appointed day (1st January,1937), on which registration under the L.R. Act, 1925, became compulsory on sale of land throughout the administrative county of Middlesex. See REGISTRATION.

Money of account, money of measurement money of payment

of Commons so elected presented the Bill without alteration, it was passed by the House of Lords and became the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910. As to money-bills under the Parliament Act, 1911, see ACT OF PARLIAMENT. And

Monopoly

were common before the Stuarts, and were very oppressive and injurious during the reign of Elizabeth. The grievance became so insupportable that, notwithstanding the power of granting monopolies was a valuable part of the prerogative, they were

Nabob, Nawab

Nabob, Nawab, originally the governor of a province under the Mogul government of Hindustan, 'whence it became a mere title of any man of high rank, upon whom it was conferred without any office being

Jus respondendi

Jus respondendi, means 'the right of responding'. The authority conferred on certain jurists of delivering legal opinions that became binding law. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 867.

Lancaster

Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice [see (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 18(2)]; the Common Pleas became vested in the High Court, but the Chancery at Lancaster was not so vested. See also (English) Chancery

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