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Causes celebres, a work containing reports of the decisions of interest and importance in French Courts in the 17th and 18th centuries. The first series, in 22 vols., is by Gayot de Pitival; the second, called the Nouvelles Causes Celebres, in 15, by Des Essarts. Compare Howell's State Trials in England. The word is applied to any English case of great interest and importance, as the Tichborne case (see Tichborne Case), Queen Caroline's case, etc....
Celebrate
To extol or honor in a solemn manner as to celebrate the name of the Most High...
Celebrated
Having celebrity distinguished renowned...
Celebration
The act process or time of celebrating...
Celebrator
One who celebrates a praiser...
Celebrity
Celebration solemnization...
Conflict of laws
Conflict of laws. In the case where a suit is brought in one country, and the parties, or one of them (or the subject-matter of the suit), belongs more or less to another, and the laws of the two countries upon the subject are at variance, there is said to be a conflict of laws. See LEX LOCI CONTRACTUS; and also the case of Simonin v. Mallac, (1860) 29 LJ Prob & Mat 97, where the marriage of two French persons who came to England for the express purpose of celebrating a marriage which would have been void if celebrated in their own country was declared valid. 'Either nation may refuse to surrender its laws to those of the other, and if either is guilty of any breach of the comitas or jus gentium, that reproach shall attach to the nation whose laws are least calculated to ensure the common benefit and advantage of all.' See Dicey's or Story's Conflict of Laws; Chitty on Contracts, citing Kaufman v. Gerson, (1904) 1 KB 591. See RENVOI and Halsbury, Laws of England, Hailsham ed., title Co...
Contingent remainder
Contingent remainder, a remainder limited so as to depend on an event or condition which may never happen or be performed, or which may not happen or be performed till after the determination of the preceding estate, Fearne, Cont. Remainders.The legal estate in contingent remainders has been abolished by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 1. S. 4, whoever, provides that they can take effect as equitable interests, and any instrument creating a contingent remainder has become a settlement under s. 1 (ii) of the (English) S.L. Act, 1925. See SETTLED LAND.In Smith d. Dormer v. Parkhurst, (1740) 18 Vin. Abr. 413; 6 Bro. Cas. Par. 351, the Court held that, in every case where an estate is given to A. for life, the grantor has an interest remaining in him to enter upon the estate, if it should determine by any act of the tenant amounting to a forfeiture; that this right is inherent in the grantor, from the nature of the estate itself, and may be conveyed to trustees; and that, when it is conv...
Incense
Incense. The ceremonial use of incense immediately before the celebration of the Holy Communion, so as to be preparatory or subsidiary to the celebration of the Holy Communion is unlawful, Summer v. Wix, (1870) LR 3 Adm & Ecc 58....
Solemnise
Solemnise, the word 'solemnize' means, in connec-tion with a marriage, to celebrate the marriage with proper ceremonies and in due form (Shorter Oxford Dictionary). It follows that unless the marriage is celebrated or performed with proper ceremonies and due form it cannot be said to be solemnized, Bhaurao Shankar Lokhande v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1965 SC 1564 (1565): (1965) 2 SCR 837. (Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, s. 17, 3)To enter into (a marriage, contracts etc.) by a formal act usu. before witness, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1398...
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