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Entry
Entry, the depositing of a document in the proper office or place; actual entry on land is necessary to constitute a seisin in deed, and is necessary in certain cases, as, e.g., to perfect a common-law...
Conventry Act (English)
Act (English) (22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 1), by which it was made a capital felony to disable with intent to disfigure,so called because it was passed in consequence of an assault upon Sir John Coventry.
Discriminatory manner
Discriminatory manner, means affording different to different persons attributable wholly or mainly to their respective descriptions by race, place of origin, political opinions or affiliations, colour, creed, or sex whereby persons of one such description are...
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Mental illness
Mental illness, means any mental disorder other than mental retardation. (Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 (1 of 1996), s. 2 (q)]
Medical authority
Medical authority, means any hospital or institution specified for the purposes of this Act by notification by the appropriate Government. [Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 (1 of 1996),...
Taxation of costs
signed bill of costs, until the expiration of a month from the delivery of which the solicitor is disabled, by the Solicitors act, 1932, s. 65, from suing the client upon such bill. The mode of taxation
Minor
Minor, a person under twenty-one years of age. There is no legal distinction between a minor in this sense and an infant. See INFANT. Strictly speaking, in Scotland a minor is a person between the ages...
Motor Car
Motor Car, means a mechanically propelled vehicle, not being a motor cycle or an invalid carriage, which is constructed itself to carry a load or passengers and of which the weight unlades: (1) if it is...
Papal bull
Papal bull. 1. The seal affixed to certain documents issued by the Pope. 2. Such a document itself. The bringing of papal bulls into the United Kingdom was at one time treason; but see the (English)...
Papist
Papist [fr. papa, Lat., a pope], one who, adhering to the communion of the Church of Rome, maintains the supreme ecclesiastical power of the Pope, as contradistinguished from English Protestants who in Statutes, Canons, and the...
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