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Reputed owner

the bankruptcy in the possession, order, or disposition of the bankrupt, in his trade or business, by the consent and permission of the true owner, under such circumstances that he is reputed owner thereof, pass to his

Public meeting

person may attend. Any number of persons may meet in any place for any lawful purpose with the consent of the owner of that place; but without such consent, and in any case in the public streets,

Publication

before protection defeats the inventor's right to protection by patent, unless the publication be without the knowledge or consent of an inventor who has not been guilty of unreason-able delay in obtaining protection. An invention covered by

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Rape

(Co-Litt. 123-b). The offence of rape in its simplest term is 'the ravishment of a woman, without her consent, by force, fear or fraud', or as 'the carnal knowledge of a woman by force against her will'.

Reference

referred: (1) subject to the right to a jury, for inquiry and report; or (2) where the parties consent, and also without such consent in any cause 'requiring any prolonged examination of documents or accounts or any

Solicitor

(s. 24), and if the solicitor die or leave off practice, or the Articles be cancelled by mutual, consent, fresh Articles may be entered into with another solicitor (s. 13). The clerk may not engage in any

Suicide and euthanasia

inconsistent may not be quite incorrect, because in passive euthanasia, wherever it has been accepted as legally permissible, consent of the patient, if he be in a sound mental condition, has been regarded as one of the

Sunday

'Expiring Laws Continuance Acts'--prosecutions for offences under the Act of Charles II. may only be commenced with the consent in writing of the chief officer of police, or of two justices of the peace, or a stipendiary

Takes or entices any guardian of such minor

protection and control of the minor being available, whenever necessity arises. On plain reading of this section the consent of the minor who is taken or enticed is wholly immaterial: it is only the guardian's consent which

Landlord and Tenant Act, 1927

regard to breaches of repairing covenants and also with regard to covenants against assignment, covenants against improvements without consent and covenants against alteration of user without consent. See also LANDLORD AND TENANT.

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