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Accession

of a treaty already concluded between other countries. The accession of a sovereign takes place immediately upon the death of the preceding monarch. See BILL OF RIGHTS. Accession, means property by. The doctrine of property arising from … Accession [fr. accedo, Lat.], addition, arriving at, the commencement of a sovereign's reign; also the absolute or conditional acceptance

Accretion

alluvion, i.e., by the washing up of sand or soil, so as to form firm ground; or by dereliction, as when the sea shrinks below the usual water mark. If this accretion of land be by small … John Holt & Co., 1915 AC p. 613. Consult Coulson & Forbes on the Law of Waters. See ACCESSION.

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Betting

every person betting in any street or public place, or in any place to which the public have access [including, as was decided in Langrishe v. Archer, (1882) 10 QBD 44, a railway carriage on its journey], … Betting. For definition and for s. 18 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 109), see WAGER.

Tail

realty by way of trust and which (if not barred or disposed of by will after 1925) will devolve inequity on the person who would have taken realty as heir of the body or as tenant by … [(English) S.L. Act, 1925, s. 20] (8) This estate could not be merged, surrendered, or extinguished by the accession of the fee-simple of the tenant-in-tail except by tenant-in-tail after possibility of issue extinct, Co. Litt. 27 b;

order

intended to protect one individual from violence, abuse, harassment, or stalking by another esp. by prohibiting or restricting access or proximity to the protected party [excluded from the home by a restraining order issued because of domestic … order final order : an order of a court or quasi-judicial tribunal which leaves nothing further to be determined or accomplished in that forum except execution of the judgment and from which an appeal will lie gag

Misrepresentation

true, though he believes it to be true; (2) any breach of duty which, without an intent to deceive, gains an advantage to the person committing it, or any one claiming under him, by misleading another to … indemnify a person from the consequence of indolence and folly, or of careless indifference and neglect of easily accessible means of information. At Common Law, see more fully under the title DECEIT. If the representation amounts to

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