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Railway Rolling Stock Protection Act, 1872

Railway Rolling Stock Protection Act, 1872 (English) (35 & 36 Vict. c. 50), protects from distress by a landlord rolling stock not being the property of the tenant. The (English) Railway Companies Act, 1867

Railway

Act, 1911, as amended, and Railways Act, 1921, s. 8. As to the protection of rolling stock from distress and execution, see ROLLING STOCK. Electrical Power.-The (English) Railways (Electrical Power) Act, 1903, as amended, 'facilitates the introduction

Proprietate proband', de

de, a writ addressed to a sheriff to try by an inquest in whom certain property, previous to distress, subsisted, Finch L. 316.

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Privilege

abiding in court--this includes judge's chambers; so clergymen as to divine service. See also the following titles and DISTRESS; LIBEL. The word privilege is sufficiently wide to include an immunity, Mohanlal Jain v. His Highness Maharaja Shri

Dry-rent

Dry-rent, a rent reserved without clause of distress. See RENT-SECK.

Adverse possession

Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 57), which provides that no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover any land or rent, but within twelve years next after the time

Double Rent

is a penalty on a tenant holding over after his own notice to quit has expired. B the Distress for Rent Act, 1737 (11 Geo. 2, c. 19), s. 13,in case any tenant give notice to quit,

Compassion

Literally suffering with another a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another pity commiseration

Lampoon

A personal satire in writing usually malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress

Imminence

quality of being imminent a threatening as of something about to happen The imminence of any danger or distress

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