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Bill in criminal cases

Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 36), from 1st September, 1933, except in certain cases [s. 1 (9)]. S. … the bill was an indictment of a crime or misdemeanour preferred to a grand jury; evidence in support of it was

Deprivation

his patronage, vicarage, or other spiritual promotion or dignity, either, first, by sentence declaratory in the proper Court for fit and … of deprivative is the removal of a person from any preferment which he holds and is qualification from holding any or

Winding-up

companies. The property of a company is collected and distributed firstly in discharge of its liabilities, and secondly, among its members … avoided against an individual in his bankruptcy as a fraudulent preference (Bankruptcy Act, 1914, s. 44, see FRAUDULENT PREFERENCE) are avoided

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primary

primary 1 : of first rank, value, or importance 2 : belonging to the first … an election in which qualified voters nominate or express a preference for a particular candidate or group of candidates for political

Primogeniture

Primogeniture, seniority, eldership, state of being first-born. The right of primogeniture obtaining in the United Kingdom was … in age is entitled to succeed to the estate in preference to his younger brother, Annasaheb Bapusahab Patil v. Balwant Bapusahab

Replevin

a re-deliverance of the thing distained to remain with the first possessor, on security or pledges given by him to try … contesting the validity of the seizure, whereas, if the owner prefer to have damages instead, the validity may be contested by

Fraud

such fraud was r might with reasonable diligence have been first known or discovered; see (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 … treated as fradulent by statute, see MISFEASANCE; PROSPECTUS; WINDING-UP; FRADULENT PREFERENCE; FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCES; PASSING OFF. Fraud and collusion vitiate even the

Joint-tenancy

titles existing before 1926, and to equitable interests only after 1st January, 1926. When an estate is granted to two or … courtesy attaches to this estate, for the jus accescendi is preferred to all charges and incumbrances which do not amount to

Tenths

to the Church by 2 Anne, s. 8. See also FIRST FRUITS; BOUNTY OF QUEEN ANNE. … the tenth part of the annual value of every spiritual preferment, paid in early times to the pope, transferred from the

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