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assault

offensive sexual contact that does not amount to sexual intercourse or involve penetration and that is committed without consent of the victim and without the intent to commit rape sexual assault : sexual contact usually that is

Legem sciscere

Legem sciscere [Lat.], to give consent and authority to a proposed law, applied to the consent of the people, Rom.

Protector of the settlement

con-sent is required to enable a remainderman in tail to bar the entail. In the absence of such consent the remainderman can only bar his own issue and create a Base Fee (see that title). Under the

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Mansion-house

acres in extent) was not to be sold, exchanged, or leased by such tenant for life without the consent of the trustees of the settlement, or the order of the Chancery Division of the High Court. Now,

Market

vegetables, animals intended for human food or any other articles of human food whatsoever, with or without the consent of the owner of such place notwithstanding that there may be no common regulation for the concourse of

Mortmain

seigniory (the great hinge of government in those days) were thus impaired. But either with or without the consent of the immediate lords (for this is doubtful), this forfeiture might be dispensed with by a licence in

Parish Apprentices

the guardians of the poor. The children of poor persons could be apprenticed out by the overseers, with consent of two justices, and by the guardians without such consent, till twenty-one years of age, to such persons

Pasture

Pasture, land on which cattle feed. See Norton on Deeds. The laying down permanent pasture with the written consent of the landlord is an improvement for which a tenant is entitled to compensation on quitting by the

Permit

1988 (59 of 1988), s. 2 (31)] The word 'permit' is to be understood indicative of a formal consent, grant or authorization or to giving of express licence, Ram Singh Pritam Singh v. Chief Commissioner, AIR 1968

Pourveyance, or Purveyance

sovereign, by buying them at an appraised valuation in preference to all others, and even without the owner's consent. Indeed, it was a royal right of spoil, and was long since abolished. It was forbidden, without the

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