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Presentation
Presentation, the offering by the patron of a benefice to the ordinary of a person to be instituted to the benefice. It must be in writing (29 Car. 2, c. 3), and is in the nature...
Privy seal and privy signet
Privy seal and privy signet. The Privy Seal (privatum sigillum) is a seal of the sovereign under which charters, pardons, etc., signed by the sovereign, pass before they come to the Great Seal,and also used for...
Surrender of fugitives
Surrender of fugitives. Penal laws of foreign countries are strictly local, and affect nothing more than they can reach and can be seized by virtue of their authority. A fugitive who passes hither comes with all...
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Machinery
Machinery. As to the riotous destruction of machinery, see Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 97), s. 11, as amended. As to the fencing of machinery in factories, see FACTORY. Chimneys which are...
factotum
A person employed to do all kinds of work or business a person with many different responsibilities
Corporate name
Corporate name. When a corporation is created a name is always given to it, or supposing none to be actually given, will attach to it by implication, and by that name alone it must sue and...
Base-estate
Base-estate, lands held by base-tenants, who performed villeinous services to their lords; but there is a difference between a base estate and villenage, for to hold in pure villenage is to do all that the lord...
Stipendiary Magistrates
Stipendiary Magistrates, paid magistrates ap-pointed in the Metropolis under the (English) Metropolitan Police Courts Act, 1839; in municipal boroughs, on petition by the council to the Secretary of State, under the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882,...
Resignation
Resignation, implies that the party resigning has been elected to the office which he resigns: a man cannot 'resign' that which he is not entitled to, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Vol. 3, p. 2299. Resignation, is a...
Double grants
Double grants, where by reason of their number or otherwise the executors appointed by the will do not all prove, power may be reserved to the non-proving executors to prove at a later date. The second...
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