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Restraining Order
Restraining Order. 5 Vict. c. 5, s. 4, extended the preventive powers of Chancery by giving its judges authority, upon the application of … Restraining Order. 5 Vict. c. 5, s. 4, extended the preventive powers of Chancery by giving its judges authority, upon the application
Dog
for the purpose of draught. Licenses.--Dog licenses are regulated by the (English) Dog Licenses Act, 1867 (30 Vict. c. 5), as amended by 32 & 33 Vict. c. 14, s. 38, 41 Vict. C. 15, ss. 17-23, … Scotland for the purpose of draught. Licenses.--Dog licenses are regulated by the (English) Dog Licenses Act, 1867 (30 Vict. c. 5), as amended by 32 & 33 Vict. c. 14, s. 38, 41 Vict. C. 15, ss.
House of Commons
Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 744. Property Qualification.--The property qualification of members, which was by 1 & 2 Vict. c. 48, amending 9 Anne, c. 5, by allowing personal property to count fixed at 600l. a year … House of Commons, one of the constituent parts of Parliament, being the assembly of knights of shires, or the representatives of
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Distress
remove his own chattels off the premises, and does not leave thereon sufficient to meet the arrears, Tomlinson v. Consolidated Credit Corporation, (1889) 24 QBD 135, the landlord may within thirty days take and seize such goods … Lat., to bind fast; districtio, Med. Lat., whence distraindre, Fr.], a taking, without legal process, of a personal chattel from the possession of a wrong-doer into the hands of a party grieved, as a pledge for the
Drunkenness
Drunkenness, intoxication with strong liquor; habit-ual inebriety. A contract made by a person when so drunk as to be unable to understand what he is doing is … made by a person when so drunk as to be unable to understand what he is doing is voidable if the person with whom the contract was made was aware of the fact, but it is not
Army (UK)
War' which those Acts empowered the sovereign to make. In 1879 the Army Discipline Act (42 & 43 Vict. c. 33) consolidated the provisions of the Mutiny Act with the Articles of War. This Act having been … Army (UK) [fr. armee, Fr.], the military force of a country. From1689 to 1879, the army was regulated by Annual Mutiny Acts usually expiring in April, and by the
Distringas
Distringas (that you distrain), anciently called constringas, a writ addressed to the sheriff, and issued to effect various purposes. The cases in which it … Distringas (that you distrain), anciently called constringas, a writ addressed to the sheriff, and issued to effect various purposes. The cases in which it was used in Common Law proceedings may be thus stated:- (1) a
Hospitals
Hospitals, eleemosynary corporations. They are either aggregate, in which the master or warden and his brethren have the estate of inheritance; … impotent people'; but no such hospital may be erected unless endowed with lands or hereditaments of the yearly value of 20l. For power of local authorities to provide hospitals for their districts, see Public Health Act, 1875,
Presentation
to the ordinary of a person to be instituted to the benefice. It must be in writing (29 Car. 2, c. 3), and is in the nature of letters-missive to the ordinary. The sovereign, as protector ecclesi', … a person to the patron. These two rights may co-exist in different persons; thus where an advowson is vested in trustees or mortgagees they have the right of presentation, while the right of nomination is in the
Act of Parliament
the House of Commons that it is a money bill. As to the statutory effect given to resolutions varying or renewing taxation, see (English) Provisional Collection of Taxes Act, 1913 (3 Geo. 5, c. 3), and (English) … Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in
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