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Clandestine

with secrecy withdrawn from public notice usually for an evil purpose kept secret hidden private underhand as a clandestine marriage

Clandestine mortgages

Clandestine mortgages. By 4 & 5 Wm. & Mary, c. 16, it was enacted that if any person, having

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customs duties with which they are chargeable. The second eventuality can occur not only where there is a clandestine import evading the assessment of duty but also where there is a clandestine removal without payment of the

Clancular

Conducted with secrecy clandestine concealed

Distress

(q.v.) [(English) Tithe Act, 1936, s. 16]. If a tenant, aftr his rent is in arrear, fradulently or clandestinely remove his own chattels off the premises, and does not leave thereon sufficient to meet the arrears, Tomlinson

Dona clandestina sunt semper suspiciosa

Dona clandestina sunt semper suspiciosa. 3 Rep. 81.-(Clandestine gifts are always suspicious.) See GIFT

Gretna green marriage

publication of banns (or a licence) necessary in England, it became usual for persons who wished to marry clandestinely to go to Gretna Green, the nearest part of Scotland, and marry according to the Scotch law; so

Marriage

for the defendant in error.' In 1753 Lord Hardwicke's Act (26 Geo. 2, c. 33), passed to prevent clandestine marriages, required, under pain of nullity, that banns should be published according to the rubric, or a license

Removal of goods to prevent distress

(11 Geo. 2, c. 19), which, if the removal of his goods by a tenant be fradulent, or clandestine, allows the landlord to follow and distrain upon the goods for thirty days, wherever they are. See Woodfall,

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