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Innkeeper

in his debt. See also (English) Public Health Act, 1936, s. 157(3), as to notifiable diseases. See Mew's Digest, tit. 'Innkeeper.'

OF COURT; and consult Marchant on Barristers; Warren's Law Studies; Forsyth's Hortenisus; and Chitty on Contracts; also Mew's Digest, tit. 'Barrister.' It shall mean a barrister of England or Ireland, or a member of the Faculty of

Hung Parliament

Hung Parliament, is the Parliament wherein no party has won a working majority, Reader's Digest Great Illustrated Dictionary, 1984, p. 823. The result of a hung Parliament is either a minority Government or

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Preamble

11 Cl&F 143; Winn v. Mossman, (1869) LR 4 Ex 299; Maxwell on Statutes; Hardcastle on Statutes; Mew's Digest, tit. 'Statute'; the effect of the cases being that as a general rule the preamble is to be

Interest

of Lords. See also Reg. v. London County Council, (1892) 1 QB 190; and other cases in Mew's Digest, tit., 'Public Officer.' The right to take objection to hearing by a judge on the ground of interest

Interpretation Clause

used for the purposes of the Act. Interpretation clauses have been much complained of by judges: see Mews's Digest, tit. 'Statute,' p. 1886; but they make an Act, by shortening, much easier to read, and indeed in

Law Reports

Bar and published on their responsibility may be cited in argument. For abbreviations, see tables in, e.g., Mews's Digest. The Scottish reports (civil cases) from 1907 onwards are known as 'Session Cases' and are published annually. They

Lives

where an estaeis held during the livesof others, as well as to a lease for lives. See Mew's Digest, vol. vi., tit. 'Estate pr Autre Vie,' at p. 322. See AUTRE VIE.

Maxim

Clerks' Association in January, 1905: see Law Times Newsp. For January 14, 1905. Consult Broom's Legal Maxims; Mew's Digest, tit. 'Maxims,' and see full collections in Encyclop'dia of the Laws of England, and in Bouvier's Law Dictionary,

Meat

one which reads as: 'meat'. Food, flesh of animals used as food. The Universal Dictionary published by Readers Digest, New York read: 'meat' as a (I) Edible flesh of mammals, as distinguished from that of fish or

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