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Ship

QB 54. See also the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1924. The Shipowners' Negligence (Remedies) Act, 1905, enables a person injured by, or on, or in, or about a ship in a port or harbour of … caused in consequence of the negligence, etc., mentioned in the Act. See NAVIGATIONACTS; MERCHANT SHIPPING; LIMITED LIABILITY; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Shipping'; and consult Temperley or Maclachlan on M. S. Acts; Maude and Pollock on Shipping; Carver opn

Insurance

Companies formed for carrying on this business have generally a large subscribed but uncalled capital, so as to enable them to raise large sums to make good extraordinary losses. Marine Insurance.--The practice of marine insurance is older … has similar enactments as to assurances on lives 'or on any other event or events whatsoever'; see these statutes and the cases on them in Chitty's Statutes, tits. 'Insurance (Life and Accident)' and 'Insurance (Sea).' An attempt

Charging order

made in any case in which the right to recover payment of the costs is barred by any statute of limitations. See Cordery on Solicitors; Atkinson on Solicitors' Lien. Partners.--Under s. 23 of the (English) Partnership Act, … the judgment debt. Solicitor's Costs.--The (English) Solicitors' Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 37), s. 69, enables any court in which a solicitor has been employed to prosecute or defend a suit to make a

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Clergy

1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 91) (amended in 1934 by 24 & 25 Geo. 5, No. 1) enables them, by executing and enrolling a deed of relinquishment, to obtain freedom from their disabilities, and generally to … contains provisions for dealing with cases where ecclesiastical duties are inadequately performed. See CLERICAL SUBSCRIPTION, infra: also Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Church and Clergy'; Phillimore's Ecclesiastical Law; Dale's Clergyman's Legal Handbook; and Whitehead's Church Law.

Burial ground

though not necessarily, incorporated that Act. In 1852 an adoptive Burial Act (15 & 16 Vict. c. 85), enabled elective 'burial boards' of metropolitan parishes to acquire land for burial grounds, and this Act was applied to … and as to the rating of burial-grounds, Winstanley v. North Manchester Overseer s, 1910 AC 7, also Chitty's Statutes, tit. Burial' Baker or Little on the Law of Burial; and CREMATION. A creditor cannot arrest or detain

Australia, Commonwealth of.

Northern Territory, and Norfolk, Ashmore and Cantier Island in the Pacific (and see MANDATED TERRITORIES), with a Constitution enabling its Parliament, consisting of the Sovereign of the British Empire, a Senate, and a House of Representatives, to … and on other questions, an appeal to the Privy Council by special leave of the Sovereign. By the Statute of Westminster, 1931 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 4) (q.v.), the Commonwealth of Australia became a Dominion;

Constable

Act also makes provision for the establishment of an organization called the Police Federation for the purpose of enabling members of the police forces of England and Wales to consider and bring to the notice of the … Order, 1923, No. 905; and as to Scotland, the Special Constables (Scotland) Acts, 1914 and 1915. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Police.' Canals (Offences) Act, 1840 (English) (3 & 4 Vict. c. 50), provides for the appointment of

Wills

to a man's wife and children their 'reasonable parts.' See REASONABLE PARTS. The third s., termed the 'general enabling clause,' as explained by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 178, enacts that it shall be lawful … Parliament. Before 32 Hen. 8, c. 1, a will could not be made of land, and before the Statute of Frauds a will (see NUNCUPATIVE WILL) could be made by word of mouth. Moreover, the testamentary power

Income

implication, to any restriction by the way in which that term might have been deployed in a fiscal statute. The expression 'income' in the legislative entry has always been understood in a wide and comprehensive connotation to … of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India, shall be widely and liberally construed so as to enable a Legislature to provide by law for the prevention of evasion of income-tax, Punjab Distilling Industries Ltd. v.

Partition

applying to joint tenants and tenants in common holding for life or years. Co-owners of copyhold were first enabled to make partition by s. 85 of the (English) Copyhold Act, 1841, since re-enacted by s. 87 of … in land may obtain the requisite power under s. 57 of the (English) Trustee Act, 1925. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Partition'; Seton on Judgments. A party asking for a sale was not compellable to part with his

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