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Sedition

fifty persons within one mile of Westminster Hall, except for parliamentary election purposes, are declared unlawful on any day on which Parliament is sitting. By s. 25 of the Act of 1817, and s. 2 of the … bodies of members, and all presidents, treasures, secretaries, delegates, and other officers shall not be entered in a book or books to be kept for that purpose, and to be open to the inspection of all the

Marriage

7, s. 7, and 28 Hen. 8, c. 16, s. 2), i.e., the degrees as setout in the Book of Common Prayer, were merely voidable by suit in the Ecclesiastical Court during the life of the parties. … the usual place of worship of either party. In case of license, the Act of 1823 requires fifteen days' residence, Tuckniss v. Alexander, 32 LJ Ch 794. It is only if both parties have concurred in falsifying

Tenure

the name of tenure in ancient demesne, which consisted of those lands or manors that appeared in Domesday Book to have been actually in the possession of the Crow in in the reign of Edward the Confessor … fee was bound to attend the lord to the wars on horseback, armed as a knight, for forty days in every year, if called upon, and this attendance was his rent or service for the land he

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Savings banks

by the dated stamp of his office, and the amount received is to be reported on the same day to the Postmaster-General. For the power of the Public Trustee in opening accounts, see Post Office Savings Bank … than one shilling, nor of any sum not a multiple thereof) is to be entered in the depositor's book, attested by the receiving officer and by the dated stamp of his office, and the amount received is

Factory

including the pre-cincts thereof whereon twenty or more persons are employed or were employed for wages on any day of the preceding twelve months, and in any part of which a manufacturing process is being carried on … Press run by the University is engaged in carrying on a 'manufacturing process' in the printing of text books, journals, forms and other items of stationery comes within the expression 'factory', Osmania University v. Regional Director, Employees'

Debenture

on uncalled capital, or such as would require a bill of sale, on land wherever situate, on company's book debts, or as a floating charge, or on calls made but not paid; on a ship; on goodwill … charge is registered with the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies in manner prescribed by the Act, within 21 days from the date of execution of the charge. The avoidance will be without prejudice to the company's obligation

Dialogus de scaccario

office of treasurer, in the reign of Richard I., and was therefore qualified for such an undertaking. This book treats, in a way of dialogue, of the whole establishment of the Exchequer, as a Court and an … the reign of Henry II. This is done in a style somewhat superior to the Law-Latinity of those days, 1 Reeves, 220; and see Mad. Hist. of the Exchequer; Stubb's Select Charters

Institutions

made in the register of the ordinary, not only that such a clerk received institution on such a day and year, but if the clerk were presented, at whose presentation, and whether in his own right or … 533, and designed as an elementary introduction to legal study (legum cunabula). The work was divided into four books, subdivided into titles. The Institutes are the elements of the Roman Law, and were composed at the command

Special jury

by the (English) Jurors Act, 1870, s. 22--by which each special juror was entitled to one guinea each day of attendance--were repealed by 34 & 35 Vict. c. 2. See GOOD JURY. Cost of Special Jury.--The party … etc. The Jurors Act, 1870, s. 6, provides that every man whose name shall be on the jurors' book for any county in England or Wales, or for the county of the City of London, and who

Debt

in substance a debt but does not include an advance as aforesaid made on or after the first day of July, 1952 or a debt due to - (i) the Central Government or Government of any State; … in the debet, which was the principal and only common form. There is another species mentioned in the books, called debt in the detinet, which lay for the specific recovery of goods, under a contract to deliver

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