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Forfeiture

132 of the (English) L.P. Act, 1922, and s. 146 of the (English) L.P. Act, 1925, and the compensation payable upon any kind of forfeiture or copyhold or customary land is set out in (English) L.P. Act,

Fruit

Fruit, as to larceny of and damage to, see Larceny Act, 1916, s. 8(3), and Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 23, 24; as to compensation

Receipt

21, s. 36), and now also a receipt of consideration money and for sums recovered by way of compensation under the (English) Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925; see the (English) Finance Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5,

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Game

17; Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1893, s. 2; (English) Hares Preservation Act, 1892, s. 2. Compensation for Damage by.By the Common Law, the moment a man brings game on to land to an unreasonable amount, or

Hire

Hire [locatio, conductio, Lat.], a bailment for a reward or compensation. It is divisible into four sorts:-(1) The hiring of a thing for use (locatio rei). (2) The hiring

Larger parcel

a complete parcel, but is the greater part of an even bigger tract, entitling the owner both to damages for the parcel taken and for severance from the larger tract. To grant both kinds of damages a

Industrial disease

Industrial disease. Compensation is provided for a workman under the Workmen's Compensation Act (which see) in respect of certain diseases. As

In jure non remota causa, sed proxima spectatur

some cause, as unseaworthi-ness, which is not within it. The maxim is also frequently applied to measure of damages, as to which see Hadley v. Baxendale, (1854) 9 Ex 341, where it was laid down that only

Hundredors

prior statutes (repealed by 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 27) relative to such liability. But the Riot Damages Act, 1886 (49 & 50 Vict. c. 38), has transferred the liability to 'police districts.' See RIOT DAMAGES.

Actio personalis moritur cum persona.

vested in him shall survive against or for the benefit of his estate. By s. 1 (2) the damages are limited in certain cases by s. 1 (3); the action must either be pending at the date

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