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Locomotives. I

Locomotives. I. On Highways.--Locomotives on highways are of two classes: (a) Light Locomotives; (b) Heavy Locomotives. (a) Formerly the expression...

Municipal corporation

Municipal corporation. A body of persons in a town having the powers of acting as one person, of holding and...

Encroachment and unauthorised construction

Encroachment and unauthorised construction, there is a distinction between the two concept namely unauthorised construction and raising of construc-tion or...

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Desertion

Desertion, (1) the criminal offence of abandoning the naval or military service without license. See ss. 12 et seq. of...

Demonstrative legacy

Demonstrative legacy, means where a testator bequeaths a certain sum of money, or a certain quantity of any other commodity...

Deed

Deed [fr. d'd, Sax.; ded gaded, Goth.;daed, Dut.], a formal document on paper or parchment duly signed, sealed, and delivered....

Cy-pres

Cy-pres (near to it). The principle of this doctrine of construction is, that where a testator hs two objects,one primary...

Copyhold

Copyhold. Tenure in copyhold has been abolished under the (English) L.P. Acts, 1922 and 1925, and the Amending Acts of...

Conditional limitation

Conditional limitation partakes of the nature both of a condition and a remainder. At the Common Law whenever either the...

Colony

Colony [fr. colo, Lat., to cultivate], a settlement in a foreign country possessed and cultivated, either wholly or partially, by...

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