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bylaws

bylaws The local laws or municipal statutes of a city or town. Source: FindLaw

Sedition

hatred or contempt' the person of the sovereign; or the Government and constitution of the United Kingdom as bylaw established or either House of Parliament,' or to excite the public 'to attempt the alteration of any matter

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Usury

then' existing laws against usury,' but the interest which pawnbrokers (see that title) may take is still restricted bylaw, and the 109th Canon, including usury amongst other offences for which an offender may be presented, has not

Sessions of the peace

of Counties Act, 1828, and other Acts; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Justices (Sessions).' There are several special sessions required bylaw to e held at particular periods, as bys. 10 of the (English) Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910, a general

Never Indebted, plea of

the effect alleged in the declaration, or to deny the matters of facts from which such contract would bylaw be implied, Steph. Plead., 7th ed. 153, 156. By R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XIX., r. 17, a defendant may

Negotiorum gestor

ratification of the acts by the owner; and sometimes where unauthorized acts are done, positive presumptions are made bylaw for the benefit of particular parties. thus, if a stranger enter upon a minor'' lands and take the

Mortmain

or of a statute for the time being in force. The licence of the sovereign, therefore, is necessary bylaw in all cases, except in the very numerous cases where, as by the (English) Companies Act, 1929, s.

Forcible entry

provides that 'none shall make entry into any lands or tenements, but in case where entry is given bylaw, and in such case not with strong hand nor with multitude of people, but only in a peaceable

Condition

by necessary implication arising our of the construction of the document or agreement, or they may be implied bylaw according to the nature of the transaction. A peculiarity of conditions precedent is that an illegal or impossible

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