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Proxy
to be available only at the meeting so specified, and any adjournment thereof [(English) Stamp Act, 1891, and First Schedule]. The Standing Orders of Parliament (L.S.O. 62 and C.S.O. 62) prohibit the sending out of stamped proxies … Co., (1907) 1 Ch 5; overruling Studdert v. Grosvenor, (1886), 33 Ch D 528. On a show of hands, a proxy has only one vote, however many persons he may represent; see Ernest v. Loma Gold Mines,
Investigation
evidence or the gathering of material. The investigation commen-ces as soon as the authority decides to take the first step whether by way of seeking evidence or by way of seeking an explanation from the person concerned. … Cl. 8 and 8B] The word 'investigation' cannot be limited only to police investigation but on the other hand, the said word is with wider connotation and flexible so as to include the investigation carried on by
Bail
prison to take his trial for the same, it is lawful at any time afterwards, and before the first day of the sessions or assizes at which he is to be tried, for the justice who signed … Bail [fr. bailler, Fr., to hand over], to set at liberty a person arrested or imprisoned, on security being taken for his appearance on
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Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)
in the mortgagor (see MORTGAGES). The chief legal estates which have been converted into equitable interests from the 1st January, 1926, are: (1) Tenancies in common or in undivided shares inland (see UNDIVIDED SHARES). (2) Limited estates, … INFANTS). The object of these changes being that the entirity of the legal estate should be in the hands of an owner or joint owners of full age who can deal with the whole estate without the
Insurance
it occur. In this contract, the chances of benefit are equal to the insured and the insurer. The first actually pays a certain sum, and the latter undertakes to pay a larger, if an accident should happen. … meet the case, and submit them to underwriters, by whom they are subscribed or rejected. Each policy is handed about in this way until the amount required is complete. Merchants and ship-owners also give orders to insurance
Intention and knowledge
state of conscious awareness of certain facts in which human mind remains supine or inactive. On the other hand, 'intention' is a conscious state in which mental faculties are aroused into activity and summoned into action for … result in doing an act is not the same thing as the intention that such con-sequences should ensue. Firstly, when an act is done by a person, it is presumed that he must have been aware that
Mesothorium
by decay of thorium 232 Mesothorium 1 radium 228 in turn produces actinium 228 mesothorium 2 as the first product of its radioactive decay and the actinium 228 in turn decays quickly half life of 6 hours … was thus sold commercially for use eg in making watch dials readable in the dark by painting the hands and hour marks with a self luminous paint containing the radioactive substance it is therefore often referred to
Piracy
act of piracy. These rules prohibit (a) the seizing of a merchant vessel in time of war unless first ordered to submit to visit and search; (b) the attack on such a vessel unless it refuses to … these without addition, subtraction, or trans-position, it is an inroad on the author's right. But, on the one hand, the sentences and words may be so rearranged that, although nothing be added to or taken from them,
Occupancy
the cestui que vie, or him by whose life it was holden; in this case, he that entered first on the land was called the occupant or common occupant and might lawfully retain the possession so long … be made of an estate pur autre vie of a freehold nature, it shall be chargeable in the hands of the heir or special occupant if it comes to him by reason of special occupancy of an
Trover
the old name for an action of conversion. Trespass and trover were actions to recover damages merely; the first for the injury to the possession, the second for the loss of the property; but the actions of … of possession at the time when he commenced his wrongful acts. In detinue and trover, on the other hand, the plaintiff was always out of possession and the defendant in possession of the goods when the tort
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