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Marriage, Promise of
by 26 Geo. 2, c. 33. In an action for the breach of the promise, the parties were excepted amongst others) from the general abolition of admissibility of parties as witnesses under the Evidence Act,1851, but this
Month
signs of the zodiac. (3) Calendar, by which we reckon time, consisting unequally of thirty or thirty-one days, except February, which consists of twenty-eight, and in leap year of twenty nine days. The calendar month is also
Minerals
all substances of commercial value which can be got from beneath the earth, either by mining or quarrying, except common clay [Glasgow v. Farie, (1888) 13 App Cas 657], or sandstone (N.B. Ry. v. Budhill Coal and
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Militia
and thirty, who are to be selected by ballot (23 & 24 Vict. c. 120, s. 7), with exceptions for peers, clergymen, articled clerks, officers on half pay, apprentices, poor men having more than one child born
Mental reservation
Mental reservation, a silent exception to the general words of a promise or agreement not expressed, on account of a general understanding on
Master and servant
liability the Common Law, as laid down in Priestly v. Fowler, (1837) 3 M&W 1, made the important exception that the master was not liable to a servant for the tort of a 'fellow-servant,' a term to
Marriage
62 Vict. c. 58). This Act dispenses with the presence of a registrar, formerly required in all cases except for Jews and Quakers, and allows the marriages to be solemnised in any building registered for religious worship,
Manor
barony; and the Court appendant to the manor the Court baron. Every manor (with some doubtful and unimportant exceptions) is of a date prior to the statute of Quia Emptores (18 Edw. 1, c. 1). 'A manor,'
London
The (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), does not apply to London except where expressly mentioned, namely, the provisions of Part III. relating to Joint Committees, Part X, Accounts and Audit,
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
actions of debt by deed or upon recognizance is twenty years after the cause of action has accrued, except in the case of mortgage debts which are now barred after twelve years, whether by covenant or collateral
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