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Abstract of title
affect or concern the title to be deduced, together with such matters in pais, as births, majorities, marriages, deaths, survivorships, pedigrees, descents, and successions, as connect the several transactions, or in any wise vary the title; and … who are absolute owners entitled in fee simple in possession are not exceptionally affected by legislation under these heads except so far as conveyances after 1925 to the vendor or his predecessors under special powers form part
Maiden
being given, the maiden was let and the sign being given, the maiden was let loose, and the head served from the body. The prototype of the guillotine. … It was the proto type of the guillotine. Hence, 'to kiss the maiden was to be put to death.' H. Percy Smith, Glossary of Terms and Phrases 307 (1883), Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963. It
Insurance
(c) fire, through-out the period insured. Insurance generally provide either against risks at sea, or losses by fire, death, or accident; but losses by burglary or by default of clerks, and, in fact, almost all kinds of … not been wholly or partly sacrificed for the common safety or which does not otherwise come under the heading of general average or total loss. Losses where the goods are saved, but in such a state as
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Settled land
75 of the (English) S.L. Act, 1925); capital money and the investments representing it will devolve on the death of the life tenant in the same way as the land would have done if it had remained … by the Act of 1925 (see Parts II. to V. of that Act). Improvements are classed under three heads (see the Third Schedule of the Act of 1925), the cost of which the tenant for life is
Civil Law
courts, left them to the superintendence of the common law years; still, however, keeping an ecclesiastic at the head of affairs, in the high station of chancellor, who, as his office gradually increased in influence and power, … To Romulus are ascribed the formation of a constitutional government, and the imposition of a fine, instead of death, for crimes; Numa Pompilius composed the laws relating to religion and divine worship, and abated the rigour of
Deathwatch
A small beetle Anobium tessellatum and other allied species By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound which is a call of the sexes to each other but … is a call of the sexes to each other but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death
Misadventure, excusable homicide by
intention of hurt, unfortunately kills another, as where a person is at work with a hatchet, and the head of it files off and kills a by stander, or is shooting at a mark and undesignedly kills … child, a master his apprentice or scholar, or an officer punishing a criminal, and happens to occasion his death, it is only misadventure, for the act of correction was lawful; but if he exceeds the bounds of
Capita, Per
and altered and diminished family rights in the distribution of intestate estates. See Widow in regard to all deaths after 1925. … Capita, Per (by heads). Distribution of personalty per capita (professedly borrowed from the civilians, and enacted in the Statute of Distribution) happens
Accident
unforeseen or unexpected event, a chance, a mishap, an extraordinary incident; something not expected. It is also a head of equitable jurisdiction, which was concurrent with that of the Courts of Law. Means an unlook for mishap … sudden or unintended occurrence while handling any hazardous substance resulting in continuous or intermittent or repeated exposure to death of, or injury to, any person or damage to any property or environment but does not include an
Magna Carta
any other, which holdeth of us in chief by knight's service, die, and at the time of his death his heir be of full age, and oweth to us relief, he shall have his inheritance by the … of June, 1215, being in the seventeenth year of his reign. After the adjustment of preliminaries, Articles or heads of agreement were drawn up and sealed; these Articles were then reduced to the form of a charter
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