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Customs

country. They seem to have existed in England before the Conquest, but the king's claim to them was first established by grant of Parliament in the reign of Edward I. These duties were at first, principally laid

Common

which are wholly or partly situated within a borough or urban district and any lands which on the 1st January, 1926, were subject to rights of common and become assimilated to the above-mentioned commons by the lord

Domicile

is absent, he has the intention of returning (animus revertendi). Two things, then, must concur to constitute domicile: first, residence; and secondly, the intention of making it the home of the party. There must be the fact

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Ouster

various methods: 1, abatement; 2, intrusion; 3, disseisin; 4, discontinuance; and 5, deforcement. Ouster of chattels real consists: 1st, of a motion of possession from estates held by statute, recogni-zance, or elegit, which happens by a species

To stand or not to stand as a candidate

time when, with the election in prospect, he began to hold himself out as a prospective candidate. The first part of the definition requires that in order to be a candidate a person should have been duly

Conveyancers

44,and Sch. I., take out yearly a certificate upon which a stamp duty of 4l. 10s. for the first three years, and 9l. afterwards, is payable if they carry on business in London, Edinburgh, or Dublin, and

Contingent legacy

disposal of the fund, or it may relate to the position or existence of the beneficiary; in the first case as in a bequest to be paid or payable to A. when he shall attain twenty one

International Law

mutu' vicissitudinis obtentu, with a wise and liberal regard to common convenience and mutual benefits and necessities. The first and most general maxim stated in international jurisprudence is that every nation possesses an exclusive sovereignty and jurisdiction

Indictment

grand juries of the Counties of London and Middlesex by virtue of certain enactments set out in the 1st Schedule (high treason and certain other offences tribal in the King's Bench Division). Indictments were of a highly

Attendant term

9 Vict. c. 112), as replaced and extended by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 5, and 1st Schedule, Part II., par. 1, attendant terms out of freehold land which have or may become satisfied at

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