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Hotchpot
descending--i.e., bringing her lands so given into hotchpots. As to personality. The State of Distributions (22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 10), intended children to take equal shares of the goods and chattels of their intestate ancestor, … Litt. 177 a. The blending of items of property to secure equality of division, esp. as practised is case in which advancements of an intestate's property must be made upto estate by a contribution or by an
Affidavit
Commissioners for Oaths Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 10), repealing 24 enactments from 16 & 17 Car. 2, c. 9, to s. 18 of the (English) Solicitors Act, 1877, regulates the appointment and powers of … used on the hearing of a motion for attachment, to set aside an award, and in certain other cases must be served on the other party together with the notice of motion. Any person who has made
Amnesty
Amnesty [fr. auvnorla, Gk., non-remembrance], an act of pardon or 'oblivion' (see, e.g., the Act of Oblivion, 12 Car. 2, c. 11, and 20 Geo. 2, c. 52), by which crimes against the Government up to a … understood in common parlance, the word 'amnesty' is appropriate only where political prisoners are released and not in cases where those who have committed felonies and murders are pardoned, State (Govt of NCT of Delhi) v. Prem
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Prerogative of mercy
penal statute, after information brought: 3 Inst. 238. By the passing of the Habeas Corpus Act, 1679 (31 Car. 2, c. 2), Chit. Stat. tit. 'Habeas Corpus,' the offence of sending a subject to a foreign prison … invoked to alter the sentence, either to obviate the necessity for the literal execution of the sentence in cases of high treason, or to change the sentence of death by hanging for felony into one of decapitation:
hold
possession or ownership of [held the property as tenants in common] [the band s the title to the car] b : to have as a privilege or position of responsibility [ing a retail liquor license] [the judges…shall … to be conducted [will a hearing on the matter] 4 : to rule as the holding of a case [the court held that such conduct violated the statute] compare decide, find
Costs
Pritchard, (1903) 1 KB 212; Johnson v. King,1904 AC 824; Rwland v. Air Council, 1923 WN 72; Re Carbonit, 1923, WN 208. Several Acts (English) have also been passed to restrain the bringing of vexatious actions, and … their fees, etc. Costs in actions are either between solicitor and client, being what are payable in every case to the solicitor by his client, whether he ultimately succeed or not; or between party and party, being
Equitable estates and interests
to the property, the beneficial owner merely having a personal right inequity to force the legal owner to carry out his obligation or trust, but the rights and obligations of beneficial ownership became recognized and affected by … the legal estate, although the statute did not extend to any use or trust upon a use (Tyrrel's case (1557) Dyer, 155 a), and the statute did not more than to impose a simple and merely verbal
Tenure
honorary service in person, as to be marshal of his host, or high steward of England, or to carry his banner or his sword, or to be his butler, champion, or other officer at his coronation. In … nominally, subject to the provisions of these Acts, into free and common socage, or leasehold, and in the case of copyholds, excepting and reserving to the lord his property and rights, if any, to mines and minerals,
Person
and responsible person' within the meaning of a covenant against assignment in a lease, Willmott v. London Road Car Co., (1910) 2 Ch 525. A corporation is not a person for the purpose of suing the penalties … 20 Guj LR 256. Person, implies only an individual and does not bear scrutiny when construed in the case of a company, a firm of partners or an association of persons, J.K. Industries Ltd. v. Chief Inspector
Transubstantiation
the 'Declaration against Transubstantiation') was required of all members of either House of Parliament in 1678, by 30 Car. 2, st. 2, c. 1, with the effect of disabling Roman Catholics from sitting in either House till … coronation (which shall first happen),' to 'make subscribe and audibly repeate' the Declaration, as also did, in the case of many officials, etc., the Test Act and the Toleration Act. The Declaration was as follows:- I A.
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