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Family
laws for imposition of ceiling on agricultural holdings enacted in other States. The definition is much wider, and far more generous and humane because it takes into consideration the existence of a widowed and divorced daughter, which … in a narrow sense of being a group of persons who are recognised in law as having a right of succession or having a claim to a share in the property in dispute. If the dispute which
Civil Law
a social and civilized being; it embodies so much thought, reflection, experience, and labour; it leads us so far into the recesses of antiquity, and it has stood so long against the waves and weathers of time, … of law imposed by the state, as opposed to moral law. 3. The law of civil or private rights, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.
Foreshore
sea and of every channel, creek, bay, estuary, and of every navigable river of the United Kingdom as far up the same as the tide flows to the line between the high water mark of ordinary tides … and life-saving appliances, see (English) Public Health Act, 1936, ss. 231-234. There can be no custom giving a right of shooting wildfowl on the foreshore or bed of a tidal navigable river, Fitzhardinge (Lord) v. Purcell, (1908)
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Uses
estate without any transmutation of posses-sion from him, and it may be suggested that the additional words, so far from being superfluous, meant no more than to express the grant to be for the benefit of the … Uses, a use was in its nature equitable, as such; it may be defined to have been a right in Chancery to the beneficial ownership of property, the possession of which had been confided to another. The
Colony
(3) by occupancy, as Newfoundland, New South Wales, and Van Diemen's Land, or (4) by hereditary descent. By far the greater part of the colonies was acquired by conquest or cession. In the first two cases the … every kind of colony is subject, as portions of the British dominions, and whose protection they have a right to demand, for the resistance of hostile aggression, and the peaceful possession of their territory. As a general
Hire
operation of law, as where the hirer becomes proprietor by purchase or otherwise of the thing hired. How far those principles which are derived altogether from the Roman and foreign laws are to be deemed satisfactorily established … another. The three last are but sub-divisions of the general head of hire of labour and services. The rights, duties, and obligations of the parties resulting from the contract of bailment for hire may be thus stated:-
Power
either wholly or partially, of real or personal property, either for his own benefit or that of others, Farwell on Powers; and see Freme v. Clement (1881) 18 Ch D 499. So far as they relate to … power, but equity will compel the person seised of it to clothe the estate created with the legal right. Powers deriving their effect from the Statute of Uses are either given to a person who has an
Institutions
instruction, and the writings of the ancient jurists were no longer allowed to have any authority, except so far as they had been incorporated in the digest, Smith's Dict. of Antiq. It was therefore necessary to prepare … which the subject-matter of the four books of the Institutes is comprised. The first book treats of the rights of Persons; the second, third, and five first titles of the fourth, of Things; and Actions are the
Mortgage
with the proviso for redemption a penalty, against which it always relieves when practicable. Seeing that in by far the greater number of loan transactions the mortgagor never performs the condition in the proviso for redemption, they … from the exacting grasp of an inexorable mortgagee, equity will not suffer any compact whatever to infringe the right of redeeming a mortgage in its courts. The right or equity of redemption, then, is the chief and
Warranty
Cannon Hill Estates Ltd., (1931) 2 KB 113, or to any other agreement or transaction, and in so far as it is a contract a warranty does not differ from any other contractual promise. A warranty may … such a contract, the breach of which gives rise to a claim for damages, but not to a right to reject the goods and treat the contract as repudiated,' and 'as regards Scotland' it is provided by
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