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Bonus
of tenant for life and remaindermen in a bonus declared by a company, see Bouch v. Sproule, (1887) 12 App Cas 385; Re Northage, (1891) 60 LJ Ch 488, and see Palmer's Company Law, 15th Edn., 228.
Capital offences
against a young person under 18. [Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 53]
Chancellors of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
concerned, and of all injuries and trespasses against the peace, mayhem and felony excepted, Brown v. Renouard, (1810) 12 East 12; Thornton v. Ford, (1812) 15 East 634; Ginnett v. Whittingham, (1886) 16 QBD 761; and these
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Churchwardens
sometimes appointed by the minister, sometimes by the Vestry and Parochial Church Meeting sitting together (see 11 & 12 Geo. 5 No. 1, s. 13), sometimes by the minister and the meeting together, sometimes one by the
Consensus, non concubitus, facit matrimonium
necessary to matrimony, and therefore person non compotes mentis, or a boy under 14 or a girl under 12, or a person under coercion (see Scott v. Sebright, (1886) 12 PD 21), cannot enter into this, or
Age
are now regulated by the (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), which provides that a 'child,' i.e., a person under 14, shall not be imprisoned or sent to prison
Criminal Appeal Act, 1907 (English)
or Quarter Sessions under the (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 55. Also a woman charged with murder and thejury find her not pregnant, see (English) Sentence of
False pretence, obtaining property
credit, in incurring debt, under false pretences is a misdemeanour punishable by imprisonment, with hard labour up to 12 months, by s. 13 of the (English) Debtors Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 62), and to
In forma pauperis
character of a pauper). Every poor person, having cause of action, was entitled by 11 Hen. 7, c. 12, which is in affirmance of the Common Law, to have writs according to the nature of the case,
Criminal Evidence Act
Act, 1848 (repealed by Criminal Justice Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 86), and replaced bys. 12 thereof), and anyright of the person charged to make a statement without being sworn,are to remain unaffected. The
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