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Rent
mortgage interest; 'rent-charge' includes a fee farm rent. Rent-seck, rents of assize, and chief rents, to which the Common Law remedy of distress did not attach, because no reversion existed to the land from which they issued, … but, more properly speaking, the demand should be made before sunset, so as to allow sufficient light to count the money; and the person making the demand or tender must remain on the land till the sun
Sapinda
is a lineal ascendant of the other within the limits of sapinda relationship, or if they have a common lineal ascendant who is within the limits of sapinda relationship with reference to each of them. [Hindu Marriage … the father, the line being traced upwards in each case from the person concerned, who is to be counted as the first generation. (ii) two persons are said to be 'sapindas' of each other if one is
Poll
thing may be ordered to be done by the majority of persons entitled to vote, there is a Common Law right to demand a poll, so that all entitled to vote may have a second opportunity of … a taking of votes of all persons entitled to vote present, by proxy, or otherwise, as opposed to counting the votes of voters present at a meeting. As to taking a poll at parliamentary and municipal elections
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Abridge
(English) Real Property Limitations Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27), s. 36, and the (English) Common Law Procedure Act, 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. C. 126), s. 26. … abreger, Fr., abbreviare, Lat.], to make shorter in words retaining the substance. Also the making a declaration or count shorter by subtracting or severing some of the substance therefrom, i.e., a man was said to abridge his
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