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Hemoglobin

The normal coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrate animals It is composed of hematin and globulin and is also called haeligmatoglobulin In arterial blood it is always combined with oxygen and is then called oxyhemoglobin It crystallizes under different forms from different animals and when crystallized is called haeligmatocrystallin See Blood crystal under Blood...

Affinity

Affinity, relationship by marriage between the husband and the blood relations of the wife, and between the wife and the blood relations of the husband, 1 Bl. Com. 434.Affinity is distinguished into three kinds, (1) Direct, or that subsisting between the husband and his wife's relations by blood, or between the wife and the husband's relations by blood. (2) Secondary, or that which subsists between the husband's and his wife's relations by marriage. (3) Collateral, or that which subsists between the husband and the relations of his wife's relations.Marriage within the prohibited degrees of affinity as well as of consanguinity as printed in the (English) Prayer Book Table is void by s. 2 of the (English) Marriage Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 54), as varied by the (English) Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship Act, 1907 to 1931. See CONSANGUINITY; MARRIAGE....

Consideration

Consideration. Any act of the promisee (the person claiming the benefit of an obligation) from which the promisor (the person burdened with the obligation) or a stranger derives a benefit or advantage, or any labour detriment or inconvenience sustained or suffered by the promisee at the request, express or implied, of the promisor. See Laythoarp v. Bryant, 3 Scott 250; 2 Wms. Saund 137 h; Currie v. Misa, (1875) LR 10 Exch 153.Consideration is one of the facts which the courts require as evidence of intention, (a) that a person intends his promise to be binding on him, or (b) that he intends to divest himself of a beneficial interest in property. In its widest sense consideration is the price, motive or inducement for a promise or for a transfer of property from one person to another. The nature or quality of the consideration which will be sufficient for these purposes varies with the nature of the transaction and in the absence of consideration the Courts will, except in the case of s...

Widow

Widow, a woman whose husband is dead and who has not remarried, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1592.A widow is entitled equally with next of kin to administration of her deceased husband's estate subject to the discretion of the Court [see In the Estate of Paine, A.J., (1916) 115 LT 935]In regard to deaths after 1925, by the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 46:-(1) The residuary (real and personal) estate of an intestate shall be distributed in the manner or be held on the trusts mentioned in this s., namely:-(i) If the intestate leaves a husband or wife (with or without issue) the surviving husband or wife shall take the personal chattels (q.v.) absolutely and in addition the residuary estate of the intestate shall stand charged with the payment of a net sum of 1000l. free of death duties and costs to the surviving husband or wife (with interest from date of death at 5 per cent. per annum until paid or appropriated and subject thereto as provided).(a) If the intestate lea...

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Blooded - Law Dictionary Search Results

Hemoglobin

Affinity

Consideration

Widow

Hemal

Plethora

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Diapedesis

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