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Consol

A consolidated annuity see Consols chiefly in combination or attributively...

Rebellion, Commission of

Rebellion, Commission of, one of the abolished pro-cesses of contempt in the High Court of Chancery, See the (repealed) Consol. Ord. 1860, xxx., r. 5....

Enrollment, register, record; writing in which anything is recorded.The act of recording or registering, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 551.By the Statute of Enrolments, 27 Hen. 8, c. 16, now repealed by the (English) L.P. Amendment Act, 1924 (15 Geo. 5, c. 5),Sch. 10, every bargain and sale of a freehold interest was required to be enrolled in Chancery within six [lunar] months after its date.No assurance before 1926 by a tenant-in-tail under the (English) Fines and Recoveries abolition Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74), will have any operation unless enrolled in the Central Office within six calendar months after its execution, which enrolment is sufficient of itself, even where the conveyance was by bargain and sale, within the Statute of Enrolments. This provision did not extend to copyholds, the enrolment then being on the Court-rolls of the manor. By s. 133 the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, enrolment is not required in respect of assurances or instruments executed or ma...

Confession to a priest

Confession to a priest. The English law does not recognise the duty of a priest (whether Roman Catholic or Anglican) to keep secrets revealed to him in his religious character, Normanshaw v. Normanshaw, (1893) 69 LT 468; Wheeler v. Le Marchant, (1881) 17 Ch D 681; but some judges have disapproved of extorting such secrets [see, e.g., per Best, C.J., in Broad v. Pitt, (1828) 3 C&P 518]. The practice of the law on this subject is very uncertain, and in Phillimore's Ecclesiastical Law as edited by Phillimore, L.J., when at the bar, the view is taken that it is not improbable that an English Court would decide the question in favour of the inviolability of confession and expand the law into harmony with that of other Christian states. See Best, Ev.; Taylor, Ev. The 113th Canon provides that 'if any man confess his secret and hidden sins to the minister for the unburdening of his conscience, and to receive spiritual consolation and ease of mind from him,' he 'do not reveal to any person who...