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Vagrants

Vagrants, sturdy beggars; vagabonds. The Act which is now in force, embodying, mitigating, and extending numerous former provisions, is the...

Universal agent, one who is appointed to do all the acts which the principal can personally do and which he...

Ultra vires [Lat.] (beyond the powers), said of a corporation or company when exceeding its authority. If the powers are...

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Trust, is a comprehensive expression, as covering not only the relationship of trustee and beneficiary but also that a bailor...

Public order, expression 'public order' has a distinct corrodation. Investigation into the offence under the Essential Commodities Act, may not...

Power, in respect of court the word 'power' means an authority expressly or impliedly conferred on the court by law...

nonfeasance [non- + obsolete English feasance doing, execution, from Anglo-French fesance, from Old French faisance act, from fais-, stem of...

National insurance. The (English) National Insur-ance Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 55), introduced by Mr. Lloyd George,...

Letters-patent, or letters overt [fr. liter' patentes, Lat.], writings of the sovereign, sealed with the Great Seal of England, whereby...

Jurisdiction, is a verbal coat of many colours. Jurisdiction originally seems to have had the meaning which Lord Reid ascribed...

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