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King's Books

every ecclesiastical benefice and preferment, according to which valuation the first-fruits and tenths were collected and paid, and the clergy rated. … contain the Valor Beneficiorum-i.e., value of every ecclesiastical benefice and preferment, according to which valuation the first-fruits and tenths were collected

Valor beneficiorum

of every ecclesiastical benefice and preferment, according to which the first-fruits and tenths are collected and paid. It is commonly called … Valor beneficiorum, the value of every ecclesiastical benefice and preferment, according to which the first-fruits and tenths are collected and

Inheritance

to his collateral relations being of the blood of the first purchaser subject to the three preceding rules. (6) That the … (7) That in collateral inheritances the male stocks shall be preferred to the female (that is, kindred derived from the blood

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Preferential payments

floating charge created by a company. The debts are a first charge on goods or proceeds distrained upon within three months … By the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914 (see s. 34), the preference was extended to apprentices. See the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914,

Equity of redemption

not secured by possession of the documents. Before 1926, the first mortgagee might either before or after the mortgage of the … before 1926, each incumbrancer of the equity of redemption had preference according to his priority in time. Before 1926, the following

Lease and release

was therefore concluded that if a bargain and sale were first made for an estate less than freehold, as for one … and established it as a common assurance. For it was preferable to a bargain and sale, and to a covenant to

Deed

to transfer any interest or relinquish any right should come first, and amongst them, those having legal estates before those having … but where they are repugnant, the premises will operate in preference to the habendum. There is not any habendum in an

Marriage

of dissenters in general, according to their own rites, was first provided for by the (English) Marriage Act, 1836 (6 & … to. Marriage can also be solemnized, if the parties so prefer, by the registrar alone, after notice and certificate of license,

cut-off date

month. The cut-off date is the priority date of the first applicant who could not get a visa interview for a … cut-off date The date that determines whether a preference immigrant visa applicant can be scheduled for an immigrant visa

Abatement

case of misnomer the judge may amend the indictment or information, and call upon the prisoner or defendant to plead in … then subject to the personal representatives' rights of retainer and preference, see A.G. v. Jackson, 1932 AC 365, their debts must

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