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Military offences
Military offences, those offences which are cognizable by the Courts military-as insubordination, sleeping on guard, desertion, etc, as well as any civil crime with special provisions in the case of manslaughter, treason, felony or
Mutiny Act
Mutiny Act, a statute (English) annually passed from 1689 to 1879, 'to punish mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters.' See ARMY
Necessity, agent of
566; see Gwillian v. Twist, (1895) 2 QB 84; Largan v. G.W.R. Co., 30 LT 173. A wife deserted by her husband has authority by law, as an agent of necessity, to pledge his credit for necessaries
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Office
Office, an employment, either judicial, municipal (see CORPORATE OFFICE), civil, military, or ecclesiastical. As to obtaining offices by desert only, the repealed 12 Ric. 2, c. 2, enacted that-- The Chancellor, Treasurer, . . . the Justices
Ordinum fugitivi
Ordinum fugitivi, those of the religious who deserted their houses, and, throwing off the habits, renounced their particular order in contempt of their oath and other
Per month
cause of action as each accrues, which, once vested, is not subsequently lost or divested by the service-giver's desertion or abandonment of his contract, Taylor v. Laird, 25 LJ Ex 329; Stroud
Reclamation
instance of improving the value of economically useless land by physically changing the land, such as irrigating a desert, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1277.
Renegade
the Latin reneyo, to renounce], one who has changed his profession of faith or opinion: one who has deserted his church or party. See APOSTASY.
Vagrants
his Majesty's subjects. (3) Every person wandering abroad, or lodging in any barn or outhouse, or in any deserted or unoccupied buildings, or in the open air, or under a tent, or in any cart or waggon,
Waste lands
3rd Edn., Vol. 2, p. 2510, the meaning of the word 'waste' is given as: 1. Waste or desert land, uninhabited or sparsely inhabited and uncultivated country; a wild and desolate region; 2. A piece of land
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