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Birth, Concealing

Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 60, which enacts that every person who shall, by any secret disposition (see R. v. Brown, 1870 LR 1 CCR 244) of the dead body of a child, whether such

Blockade

Blockade [fr. bloccato, Ital., military term], the disposition of troops or armed vessels, so as to cut off all external communication with an enemy's port fortress,

Caduca

Caduca, the lapse of a testamentary disposition, Sand. Just. 1. Civil law. Inheritable property, property descending to an heir. 2. Roman Law. Property formerly belonging

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places. This institution, like similar others elsewhere, has come to stay as a symbol of religious and charitable disposition of human mind translated into physical manifestation in the shape of safe shelter for the pilgrims, Municipal Council

Separatism

The character or act of a separatist disposition to withdraw from a church the practice of so withdrawing

Contract

Contract, an agreement between competent parties, to do or to abstain from doing some act. For numerous other definitions, see Chalmers's Sale of Goods Act, App. II., where it is said that the 'disposition of the...

Covenanted payments to charity

Covenanted payments to charity, the statutory provisions relating to disposition for a period which cannot exceed six years do not apply in relation to income which is payable

Crown Private Estates Acts, 1800 to 1872 (English)

Acts excluded the Crown's privte estates from restrictions in enactments, and also gave the Sovereign general powers of disposition. See also (English) Osborne Estate Act, 1902 (2 Edw. 7, c. 37), which transferred Osborne Houseto the Commissioners

Death Bed

Law of. By this law an heir in Scotland was entitled to keep his heritage as against a disposition of it by his predecessor. But the law is repealed by 34 & 35 Vict. c. 81, the

Devise

Devise [fr. deviser, Fr., to sort into parcels], a gift or disposition by will. The giver is called the devisor or testator, the person to whom it is given the

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