February - Law Dictionary Search Results
Riot Damages Act, 1886
demolition of property, and giving no compensa-tion for property stolen. A serious riot occurring in the metropolis on February 8th, 1886, and disclosing insufficiency in the law of compensation led very quickly to the Metropolitan Police Compensation
Sessions of the peace
of the (English) Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910, a general annual licensing meeting within the irst fourteen days of February, for licensing alehouses and victualling-houses to sell excisable liquors by retail to be drunk or consumed on the
Felony
(Earl Russell's case, 1901 AC 446). Lord De Clifford was tried on 12th December, 1935, and on 4th February, 1936, a motion, by the Lord Chancellor, that the present system of trial of peers by peers has
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Closure
the House of Commons, closure was instituted as a result of the action taken by Speaker Brand on February, 1881, in terminating a debate on his own responsibilities after a debate lasting 41' hours during which the
Divisions of the High Court
to each Division; and an Order in Council under this section which came into force on the 26th February, 1881, united in one 'Queen's Bench Division' (since the accession of King Edward the Seventh styled the' King's
Pluviocircse
The fifth month of the French republican calendar adopted in 1793 It began January 20 and ended February 18 See Vendeacutemiaire
Bissextile
Leap year every fourth year in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year 365 d 5 h 48 m 46 s above
Candlemas
The second day of February on which is celebrated the feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary so called because the candles
Harmattan
A dry hot wind prevailing on the Atlantic coast of Africa in December January and February blowing from the interior or Sahara It is usually accompanied by a haze which obscures the sun
Inauguration Day
by four Prior to the adoption of the twentieth amendment to the Constitution of the United States ratified February 6 1933 the date was the 4th of March
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