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Unclaimed property
duplicate at the National Debt Office. The stock may be re-transferred to persons showing title after, in the case of stock exceeding 20l., three months' public notice by advertisement. A second claimant showing better title may recover … stock. There is no similar provision in Table A to the Acts of 1908 and 1929. Dividends are barred by the Statute of Limitations at the end of twenty years [Re Artisans, etc., Corporation, (1904) 1 Ch
Advocate
conduct of a suit or action. The term is at the present day confined to persons professionally conducting cases in Court, i.e., Barristers and Solicitors (q.v.). In the English Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts, until 1857, certain persons … or action. The term is at the present day confined to persons professionally conducting cases in Court, i.e., Barristers and Solicitors (q.v.). In the English Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts, until 1857, certain persons learned in the civil
Copyhold
at the lord's will. The law certainly considers the freehold to be in the lord (except in the case of strict customary free holds, when the freehold is in the tenant), and the tenant to possess his … if the lord then refuse, he will be attached. There are two courts incident to every manor'a court baron or free-holder's court, and a customary court, which only relates to the copyholders, who form the homage and
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Executory devise
be, strictly, such a limitation of a future estate or interest in lands or chattels (though, in the case of chattels personal, it is more properly an executory bequest) as the law admits in the case of … of a contingent remainder and that of an executory devise consists in this, that the first could be barred and destroyed or prevented from taking effect by several different means, although the stringency of this rule was
Drunkenness
to persons voluntarily submitting themselves thereto in the first instance, the Act of 1898 is compulsory in certain cases, authorizing the Court to order the detention in an inebriate reformatory of an habitual drunkard convicted on indictment … Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), ss. 5, 6 (children in bars of licensed premises), repealed (English) 1932 Act. By s. 15 of the (English) Road Traffic Act, 1930 (20
Judgment
an order after hearing the preliminary objections raised by the defendant relating to maintainability of the suit, e.g., bar of jurisdiction, res judicata, a manifest defect in the suit, absence of notice under s. 80 and the … to the action by an award of redress to one party, or discharge of the other, as the case may be. By the (English) C.L.P. Act,1852, s. 120, a plaintiff or defendant having obtained a verdict in
Uses
use or to the use of C.;F. was the feoffee to uses, and A. or C., as the case may be, the cestui que use. Function of feoffee to uses.-The use consisted of three parts:-(1) That the … and policy of the Common Law. 'Firstly. Estates passed by way of use, from one to another, by bare words only, without any solemn ceremony or permanent record of the transaction, whereby a third person that had
Intoxicating liquor
for the time being in force, be legally sold without an excise licence'; two licences are in every case required (except where the sale is in theatres or on packet-boats, railway restaurant cars, or canteens, or of … and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 6, prohibits children to be allowed in bars of licensed premises with certain obvious exceptions, namely, children of licence holder, railway refreshment rooms, etc. See CHILDREN,
Perpetuity
restricted, beyond any number of lives in being [whether interested or not is quite immaterial [Duke of Norfolk's Case, 3 Cha Ca 1; 33 Car. 2, called 'the Case of Perpetuities'; and Stephens v. Stephens, Ca Tem … property only, and does not affect the making of contracts, which do not create rights of property, Ram Baran Prasad v. Ram Mohit Hazara, AIR 1967 SC 744: (1967) 1 SCR 293. Is a future limitation, whether
opinion
opinion issued by an authorized public official (as an attorney general) or a recognized body (as the American Bar Association) 3 a : the formal written expression by a court or judge of the reasons and principles … by a court or judge of the reasons and principles of law upon which the decision in a case is based compare holding, judgment, ruling advisory opinion : a nonbinding opinion or evaluation of a court or
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