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Alteration of share capital

the (English) Companies Act, 1929, the share capital of a company may be altered by increase (s. 53), consolidation or division, conversion of shares into stock and reconversion or cancellation of unissued capital (s. 50), or redemption

Anchor

Anchor. The (English) Anchors and Chain Cables Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 23), consolidating, with small amendments, three Acts of 1864, 1871 and 1874, provides that unproved anchors are not to be

Cantonment Board

Cantonment Board, means a Cantonment Board consolidated under the Cantonments Act, 1924. Cantonment (House Accommodation) Act, 1923 [Act (6 of 1923), s. 2]

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Casual pauper

and replaced by the Poor Law Act, 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 14), which was further consolidated by the Poor Law Act, 1930 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 17); and the term used is

Gunpowder

as amended by the Act of 1923. See EXPLOSIVES. As to the exportation of gunpowder, see also Customs Consolidation Act, 1876.

Dividend

Articles 89 to 96 of Table A to Companies Act, 1929, and ss. 120-123 of the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845); a distributive share of a bankrupt's estate or on the winding-up of the company, of its

Cross-action

judgment theein. Procedure by counterclaim (q.v.) has now practically superseded cross-actions, except in Admiralty cases. Cross-actions are generally consolidated and tried together. See R.S.C., Ord. XIX, r. 3.

Crown lands

the Commissioners of Works; the Board of Trade; the Forestry Commissionrs; the Treasury. The revenues go to the Consolidated Fund, and they are managed under a series of (English) Crown Lands Acts, from the (English) Crown Lands

Cujus est solum ejus est usque ad c'lum et ad inferos, ormore succinctly, Cujus est solum ejus est altum

reserve them, unless he sell to a railway company, which by s. 77 of the (English) Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, does not take mines unless the conveyance of the land expressly grants them. As to action

De praerogative regis

idiots from aliening their lands, and their heirs from being disinherited. The Act is not repealed by the consolidating Lunacy Act, 1890.

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