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Jury
value. Until the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act, 1919, women were disqualified at common law from acting as jurors except in the case of a Jury of Matrons (q.v.). Now the qualifications are the same for each sex.
Housing of the working classes
amendments the Housing Acts, 1925, 1930 and 1935, and consolidates the general law on the subject with some exceptions, chiefly relating to agricultural populations and needs, which are also provided for in unrepeated portions of the Acts
Forfeiture
23), enacted that no conviction, etc., for treason or felony, or felo de se, shall cause any forfeiture except as consequent on outlawry. The Act also makes provision for the appointment by the Crown of administrators of
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declaration
or may subject that person to liability compare admission, confession, self-incrimination NOTE: A declaration against interest is an exception to the hearsay rule. A statement that is offered to clear the accused is not admissible without corroborating
Abstract of title
ORDERS. Abstracts on behalf of vendors who are absolute owners entitled in fee simple in possession are not exceptionally affected by legislation under these heads except so far as conveyances after 1925 to the vendor or his
Husband and wife
Husband and wife. the Common Law treated them, for most purposes, as one person, giving, with exceptions comparatively unimportant, the whole of a woman's property to her husband for his absolute use, and a husband
Married women's property
pay his debts out of, give away, or dispose by will of it as he pleased, with these exceptions and modifications:- 1) Her freehold estate became his to manage and take the profits of during the joint
Winding-up
is void undr s. 174; no action or proceeding shall be proceeded with or commenced against the company except by leave of the Court (s. 177); and in England the liquidator or provisional liquidator is to take
Tenure
1481. Tenure, the mode of holding property. The only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and
Settled land
537; Wolstenholme & Cherry, Conveyancing, etc., Acts. Prior to 1856 settled estates could not be sold or leased except under the authority of some power in the settlement by which they were settled, or of a private
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