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Character and antecedents
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Stranger
terms of blood or marriage relationship with the family but as a person unconnected with it, unknown in character and antecedents to the executants of the Deed. The word 'stranger' in the text has, in our view, to be
Probation
and the Court thinks that the charge is proved, but is of opinion that, having regard to the character, antecedents, age, health, or mental condition of the person charged, or to the trivial nature of the offence,
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Retrospective
into existence before its commencement in the sense that if affects, even if for the future only, the character or consequence of transactions previously entered into or of other past conduct. Thus, a statute is not retrospective … is it retrospective merely because a part of the requisite for its action is drawn from a time antecedent to its passing, Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 44, p. 570, para. 921.
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