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County Courts

County Courts. The old County Court was a tribunal inident to the jurisdiction of a sheriff, but was not a...

Contingent remainder, a remainder limited so as to depend on an event or condition which may never happen or be...

Lien [answering to the tacita hypotheca of the Civil Law], a right in one man to retain that which is...

Wills. A will is the valid disposition by a living person, to take effect after his death, of his disposable...

Unclaimed property. This devolves on the Crown at Common Law. Unclaimed property may be dealt with under the heads of...

Remanet, means a case or proceeding whose hearing has been postponed; a remainder or remant, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.,...

Receipt, an acknowledgment in writing of having received a sum of money, which is prima facie but not conclusive evidence...

Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874 (English) (37 & 38 Vict. c. 85). By this Act'which proceeds on the preamble that...

Pension, an annual allowance made to any one, usually in consideration of past services. By the (English) Succession to the...

Lost grant, is a mere presumption from long possession and exercise of user by easement with acquiescence of the owner,...