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Patent agent

Patents and Designs Act, 1907, as amended by Patents and Designs Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 32), this expression 'means exclusively an agent for obtaining patents in the United Kingdom'; and by the same … 32), this expression 'means exclusively an agent for obtaining patents in the United Kingdom'; and by the same section no person can so term himself unless he is registered in pursuance of the Act. Means a person

Lascar

of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and saving nine unrepealed sections (ss. 25-34) of 4 Geo. 4, c. 80. … (English) Merchant Shipping Act,1894, reproducing s. 544 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and saving nine unrepealed sections (ss. 25-34) of 4 Geo. 4, c. 80.

Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction, is a verbal coat of many colours. Jurisdiction originally seems to have had the meaning which Lord Reid ascribed to it in … (1974) 3 SCC 415. [Representation of the People Act, 1951, s. 100 (1)(d)(iv)] The expression 'jurisdiction' in this section has not been used in the limited sense of the term, as connoting the 'power' to do or

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Inquiry, Court of

authorities to ascertain the propriety of re-sorting to ulterior proceedings against a person charged before it. The 4th section of the (English) Army (Annual) Act, 1901 (1 Edw. 7, c. 2), allows the evidence (previously unsworn) to … Inquiry, Court of, frequently appointed by the Army authorities to ascertain the propriety of re-sorting to ulterior proceedings against a

Innocent conveyances

and therefore, under such circumstances, would have been void altogether, and produced a forfeiture. But by the 4th section of the Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), a feoffment made after October 1st, … Innocent conveyances, a covenant to stand seized; a bargain and sale; and release; so called because, since they convey the

If the High Court is of opinion

If the High Court is of opinion, the phrase 'if the High Court is of opinion' used by the legislature in the

Earnest

1893, re-enacting, but not quite in the same words, the 17th section of the Statute of Frauds, 29 Car. 2, c. 3, that 'a contract for the sale of any goods, for the price of 10l. or

ex post facto clause

ex post facto clause often cap E&P&F&C : the clause in Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution forbidding Congress from

Borough Council

(English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), has consolidated and amended the relevant sections of the 1882 Act, see ss. 17, et seq., of the 1933 Act; but it does not apply … Borough Council, the body representing the bur-gesses of a municipal corporation by virtue of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882,

Bank-notes, or Bank-bills

(1758) 1 Burr at p. 457. Bank of England notes were made a legal tender by the 5th section of the Bank of England Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 98), as amended, everywhere except … Bank-notes, or Bank-bills, written or printed promises for money, to be paid by a banking company. They are uniformly made payable on demand. They are not like bills of exchange, mere securities or documents

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