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Overcrowding

1 year old do not count; from 1 to under 10 are reckoned as half. After the appointed day overcrowding is made an offence on the part of the occupier as well as (subject to statutory provisions) … (English) Housing Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8), s. 58, it is provided that a dwelling-house shall (subject to the provisions of the Act) be deemed for the purposes of the Act to be

Act of Bankruptcy

Act of Bankruptcy, an act, the commission of which by a debtor renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt if the petition is presented within three months thereafter. Under … in the High Court, and the goods have been either sold or held by the sheriff for 21 days: Provided that where an interpleader summons has been taken out in regard to the goods seized, the time

Law

See LEX. It includes any enactment, proclamation Regulation, rule, notification or other instrument, having, immediately before the appointed day, the force of law in the whole of any part of the territory now comprised in the state … A principle of conduct may be observed habitually by an individual or a class. When sufficiently formulated or defined to be observed uniformly by the whole of a class it may become a custom; or it may

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Executory devise

And the case of a limitation to one for life, and from and after the expiration of one day (or any other period, not exceeding twenty-one years, we may suppose) next ensuing his decease, then over to … Executory devise. Mr. Fearne (Cont. Rem. 386) defines an executory devise to be, strictly, such a limitation of a future

Proxy

a person appointed, usually by written authority, by a person entitled to vote personally, to vote at the discretion of the proxy. See Harben v. Phillips, (1883) 23 Ch D p. 35. As to voting by proxy … of persons named in such instrument be one or more,' must bear a penny stamp, must specify the day on which the meeting is to be held, and is to be available only at the meeting so

Notice to quit

then current year of the tenancy. Where the term of a lease is to end on a precise day, there is no occasion for a notice to quit previously to bringing an action of ejectment because both … be invariably followed in all cases, except where there is some special agreement between the parties to a different effect, or where a particular local custom intervenes, or where the (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, applies, in

Defender of the Faith

given by Parliament, and has continued to be used by all succeeding Sovereigns of this country to this day, notwithstanding the repeal of 35 Hen. 8, c. 3, by 1 & 2 Ph. & M. c. 8, … Defender of the Faith [ fidei defensor, Lat.], a title of the Sovereign of England, as Catholic is of

Election

in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding & Philip Laundry, p. 230. Nominations for elections are received upto eighth day after the proclamation. Poll is held on the ninth day of nomination period. Election is held by secret … The exercise of his choice by a man left to his own free will to take or to do one thing or another. It is the obligation imposed upon a person to choose between two inconsistent or

Renewal of lease

by the lessee, and this condition is strongly enforced by the Court, Finch v. Underwood, (1876) 2 Ch D 310. Leases may be surrendered in order to be renewed, without a surrender of under-leases, by virtue of … and equities or defects in title affecting the original term. The long term may be terminated by ten days' previous notice at any date on which the original lease would have expired, apart from renewal. Every assignment

Serjeant

writ, addressed unto such as are called, commanding them to take upon them that degree by a certain day, Fortescue, c. 50; 3 Cro. 1; Dyer, 72; 2 Inst. 213. The monopoly of exclusive audience enjoyed by … Serjeant [fr. serviens, Lat.], used in several senses:- A feudal tenure by knight service due only to king, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. (1) Serjeants-at-law, or of the coif (servientes ad legem), otherwise

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