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Person of unsound mind
Mills and Poyser's Lunacy Practice; Archbold's Lunacy and Mental Deficiency; Pope on Lunacy; Heywood and Massey's Lunacy Practice; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Lunatics.' Under the present practice a person who has become more or less of unsound mind
Petroleum
Part II.; London Building Act, 1930, s. 99; and EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES; OIL IN NAVIGABLE WATERS; MOTOR SPIRIT; and Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Petroleum.'
Obsolete
Henry VIII. (33 Hen. 8, c. 9) (Revised Statutes, 2nd Edn., vol. i. p. 378, published in 1888; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Games and Gaming'), by which labourers and others are forbidden to play cards or other specified
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Poaching
be fined any sum not exceeding 5l. etc., Poaching Prevention Act, 1862. See Aggs on Agricultural Holdings, and Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Game.' As to unlawfully taking fish in private water, see (English) Larceny Act, 1861, ss. 24,
Poison
see s. 1, sub-s. 1 (d) of the same Act as to administering poisonous drugs to animals. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Poison.' No comprehensive definition can be given to the word poison. Under this term would fall
Police
of its police force, see Stanbury v. Exeter Corporation, (1905) 2 KB 838. See CONSTABLE; METRO-POLITAN POLICE; and Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Police' and 'Police (Metropolis).'
Poor laws
main sources of the Poor Law; but the statutes upon the subject have also been very numerous. Consult Chitty's Statutes, tits. 'Poor,' 'Poor (Apprentices),' 'Poor (Rating),' 'Poor (Settlement and Removal),' and 'Poor (Metropolis).' The duty of making
Poor Prisoners, Defence of
House of Commons Select Committee on the Bill which became the Act, and notes on the Act, see Chitty's Statutes. Criminal Appeal.'The (English) Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, provides (s. 10) as follows:- 10. The Court of Criminal
Practice
50. As to the practice of the Courts of Common Law, see Day's Common Law Procedure Acts, and Chitty's Archbold's Practice; of Courts of Equity, Daniell's Chanc. Prac.; Seton on Judgments. As to the practice of the
Office
The sale of offices is also prohibited by the Sale of Offices Acts of 1551 and 1809. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Offices,' and Sterry v. Clifton, (1850) 19 LJCP 237, where it was held that certain official
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