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Game [fr. gaman, Sax.], all sorts of birds and beasts that are objects of the chase. The term is defined by the Game Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 32), as including for the purposes of that Act 'hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor-game, black game, and bustards'; but some of its provisions are directed to trespass in pursuit of woodcocks, snipes, quails, land rails, and coneys.At Common Law game belongs to a tenant and not to a landlord, but leases frequently contain a reservation of the game to the landlord, and before the Game Act, 1831, the right to kill game was restricted to freeholders having 100l. a year freehold, or leaseholders having a 99 years' leasehold of 150l. a year, etc. This Act repeals the (English) Qualification Act of 22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 25, and (after giving the game to landlords in the case of leases made before the Act for less than 21 years-a provision now expired) protects reservations of game by penal provisions. The Act also requires all persons k...
Eels
Eels. By the (English) Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 16), s. 35, no person is to fish for eels by rod and line during the annual close season for freshwater fish; s. 36 prohibits the use of eel baskets between 31st December and 25th June; but eels and the fry of eels are not freshwater fish by s. 92; there is a close season for elvers (which includes the fry of eels) in the Severn fishery district between 31st December and 1st March, also between 25th April and 25th June (s. 87). See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Fish....
Feasts
Feasts, anniversary days of rejoining, either on a civil or religious occasion; opposed to fasts. Our feasts are either (1) immovable, such as Christmas-day, the Circumcision, Epiphany, Candlemas-day, Lady-day, All Saints, and All Souls, besides the days of the several apostles, St. Peter, St. Thomas, etc.: these are always celebrated on the same day of the year; or (2) movable, such as Easter,which fixes all the rest, as Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Ash Wednesday, Sexagesima, Ascension-day, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, etc. The four principal immovable feasts of the year, which are commonly assigned in England for the payment of rents on leases, are the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or Lady-day, being the 25th of March; the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, held on the 24th of June; the feast of St. Michael on the 29th of September; and Christmas-day on the 25th of December.A still unrepealed Act of 1551-2 (5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3), directs certain days therein mentioned (being all S...
Fellow - servant
Fellow - servant, At Common Law a master is not liable to his servant for injury caused by the negligence of a fellow-servant, Priestly v. Fowler, (1837) 3 M. & W. 1, but this state of the law was altered by the (English) Employers Liability Act, 1880 (43 & 44 Vict. c. 42), at first limited to expire on the 31st December, 1887, but since continued by successive (English) Expiring Laws Continuance Acts. See COMMON EMPLOYMENT; WORK-MEN'S COMPENSATION ACT. At Common Law a master is not liable to his servant for injury caused by the negligence of a fellow-servant, Priestly v. Fowler, (1837) 3 M. & W. 1, but this state of the law was altered by the (English) Employers Liability Act, 1880 (43 & 44 Vict. c. 42), at first limited to expire on the 31st December, 1887, but since continued by successive (English) Expiring Laws Continuance Acts. See COMMON EMPLOYMENT; WORK-MEN'S COMPENSATION ACT....
Holiday, or Holyday
Holiday, or Holyday, a feast day with cessation from labour, as by 5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3, all Sundays in the year and also Christmas-day and other days by that Act commanded 'to be kepte holie dayes and none other.'By R.S.C. 1883, Ord. LXIII., r. 6, it is provided that the several offices of the Supreme Court shall be open on every day of the year except Sundays, Good Friday, Monday and Tuesday in Easter-week, Whit Monday, the first Monday in August, Christmas-day and the next following working day, and all days appointed by proclamation to be observed as days of general fast, humiliation, or thanksgiving; and the day appointed to be kept as the King's birthday. See also VACATION.The Bank Holidays Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 17), provides that Easter Monday, the Monday in Whitsun-week, the first Monday in August, and the 26th day of December, if a week day, shall be kept as bank holidays in England and Ireland, and New Year's day, Christmas-day (or, if either be a Sunday, the following da...
Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in a foreign country complies with these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to English law, Nachimson v. Nachimson, 1930, P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an i...
Tail
Tail [fr. tailler, Fr., to prune]. An estate-tail was formerly a freehold of inheritance and is now an equitable interest which may be created after 1925 in respect of personalty as well as 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 the curtesy if the Law of Property Act, 1925, had not been passed [s. 130 (4) (ibid.)]The limitation of an estate so that it can be inherited only by the fee owner's issue or class of issue, Black's Law dictionary 7th Edn., p. 1466.An estate-tail in land now constitutes a settlement. [(English) Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 1]With this and other statutory modifications under the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, the rules relating to this form of estate are still applicable (a) in the investigation of all titles to land in existence on the 31st December, 1925; (b) in the construction of equitable interests into which th...
amerasian act
amerasian act The law provides for the immigration to the United States of certain Amerasian children. In order to qualify for benefits under this law, an alien must have been born in Cambodia, Korea, Laos, Thailand, or Vietnam after December 31, 1950, and before October 22, 1982, and have been fathered by a U.S. citizen. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
copyright
copyright : a person's exclusive right to reproduce, publish, or sell his or her original work of authorship (as a literary, musical, dramatic, artistic, or architectural work) see also common-law copyright, fair use at use, infringe intellectual property at property, international copyright, original, public domain compare patent, trademark NOTE: Copyrights are governed by the Copyright Act of 1976 contained in title 17 of the U.S. Code. The Act protects published or unpublished works that are fixed in a tangible medium of expression from which they can be perceived. The Act does not protect matters such as an idea, process, system, or discovery. Protection under the Act extends for the life of the creator of the work plus fifty years after his or her death. For works created before January 1, 1978, but not copyrighted or in the public domain, the copyright starts on January 1, 1978, and extends for the same period as for other works, but in any case will not expire before Decembe...
life act
life act Legal Immigration Family Equity (LIFE) Act and amendments. This act of Congress allows foreign spouses of American citizens, the children of those foreign spouses, and spouses and children of certain lawful permanent residents (LPR) to come to the United States to complete the processing for their permanent residence. This Act became effective on December 21, 2000. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
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