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Education
(English) Education Act, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. 51), consolidates the existing statutes, and thus substantially codifies the law on this subject. Part III. Deals with the Elementary Schools; Part IV. School Attendance; Part V.
Partnership
by s. 1, sub-s. 1, of the (English) Partnership Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 39), a codifying Act of fifty s.s, 'to declare and amend the law of partnership,' which, in effect, transfers the law
Improvement of towns
that Act. The Town and Country Planning Act, 1932 (English) (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 48), a codifying Act, repealing the (English) Town and Country Planning Act, 1925, authorises local authorities (defined by s. 2) to
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Insurance
insurance is older than insurance against fire and upon lives, and the whole of the law is now codified in the (English) Marine Insurance Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 41). The Act renders void any policy
Law Commission
charged with the task of reviewing the law with an eyes toward systematic development and reform, esp. through codifi-cation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 891.
Coroner
by the statute 'De Officio Coronatoris,' 4 Edw. 1, repealed by the consolidating (English) Coroners Act, 1887, which codifies the law as follows:-- Where a coroner is informed that the dead body of a person is lying
Promissory Note
the person to whom the note is transferred is called the 'indorsee,' The Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, codifies the law relating to promissory notes, and by s. 89 of that Act all the provisions of the
Corporations, Municipal
& 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), which repeals many of the previous Acts, except as to London, and codifies the enactments relating to England and Wales. See MUNICIPAL CORPORA-TIONS.
war crime
used in pl. NOTE: Following World War II, the Charter of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg first codified war crimes including crimes against humanity. Also encompassed in the legal concept of war crimes is the crime
Conveyancing Acts (English)
replaced and extended by the Law of Property Act, 1925. The Conveyancing Act, 1881, was a simplifying and Codifying Act introduced by Lord Cairns. It embodied the provisions of previous statutes, the effect of legal decisions, and
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