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Vagrants
points out three classes of persons:- 1st, idle and disorderly persons; 2nd, rogues and vagabonds; 3rd, incorrigible rogues. First. Idle and Disorderly Persons.-The following are, under the Vagrancy Act, 1824, s. 3, to be deemed 'idle and … by (English) Poor Law Act, 1930, s. 150, as to obtaining relief by falsehood. It points out three classes of persons:- 1st, idle and disorderly persons; 2nd, rogues and vagabonds; 3rd, incorrigible rogues. First. Idle and Disorderly
Heir
Admin. Of Estates Act, 1925, s. 45, having abolished all modes of descent of real property obtaining before 1st January, 1926, in regard to deaths taking place after 1925, except in a few cases (see DESCENT and … it was under the general law in force before 1st January, 1926. The different kinds of heirs were classed and defined:- (a) Heir apparent. He whose right of inheritance is indefeasible, provided he outlive the ancestor: as
Specially empowered
competence to confer powers under s. 2(c) of the Act on some or all the Magistrates of the First Class in the State, in any of the modes known to law, and the Magistrate or Magistrates on whom
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Maintenance
to maintain itself, or (d) his father or mother, unable to maintain himself or herself, a Magistrate of first class, may upon proof of such neglect or refusal order such person to make a monthly allowance for the
A1
A1. An expression signifying a first-class vessel excellently built, Shipping term. See LLOYD'S REGISTER.
Classic
Of or relating to the first class or rank especially in literature or art
Cathedral
Vict. c. 77, and Welsh Church Act, 1914. Our cathedrals and collegiate churches have been divided into four classes:--1st, consisting of 13, being the cathedrals of the old foundation, or Ecclesi' Cathedrales Canonicorum Secularium; 2nd, consisting of
Endogen
in three or some multiple of three parts and their embryos have but a single cotyledon with the first leaves alternate The endogens constitute one of the great primary classes of plants and included all palms true … have but a single cotyledon with the first leaves alternate The endogens constitute one of the great primary classes of plants and included all palms true lilies grasses rushes orchids the banana pineapple etc See Exogen
VerbarSans culotte
A fellow without breeches a ragged fellow a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes … first French revolution to the extreme republican party who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy and adopted pantaloons
Obligation
synonym for duty. Its legal sense, derived from Roman law, differs from this in several respects. In the first place, obligations are merely one class of duties, namely, those which are the correlatives of rights in personam.
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