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Coparceners or parceners

seniority was in this case personal; for if the eldest sister were dead, her issue should not choose first, but the next sister. But if an advowson descended in coparcenary, and the sisters could not agree in

murder

a serious felony (as burglary or sexual battery) compare misdemeanor-manslaughter at manslaughter NOTE: Felony murder is usually considered first-degree murder. Felony murder does not require specific intent to kill, and an accessory to the felony may also

Magistrate

Magistrate, means the Judicial Magistrate of the first class, or as the case may be, the Metropolitan Magistrate, exercising jurisdiction under the Code of Criminal Procedure,

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Bill of Rights

Rome or professing the popish religion or marrying a papist, and enacts that every sovereign shall on the first day of the meeting of his first Parliament or at coronation (which shall first happen) make and subscribe

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

Equity of redemption

subsequent mortgage has not been registered and is not secured by possession of the documents. Before 1926, the first mortgagee might either before or after the mortgage of the equity of redemption, in the absence of any

Holiday, or Holyday

on every day of the year except Sundays, Good Friday, Monday and Tuesday in Easter-week, Whit Monday, the first Monday in August, Christmas-day and the next following working day, and all days appointed by proclamation to be

Law Reform (UK)

way of damages shall not in the aggregate exceed the amount of the damages awarded by the judgment first given; and in any of those actions, other than that in which judgment is first given, the plaintiff

Race of diligence

Race of diligence, A first come, first served disposition of assets, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. Means a first-come, first-served disposition of assets,

Reading of a Bill

Reading of a Bill, in House of Commons, the three stages through which a Bill passes, are: First Reading, Second Reading and Third Reading. During the first reading only short title is read by the clerk.

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Coparceners or parceners

seniority was in this case personal; for if the eldest sister were dead, her issue should not choose first, but the next sister. But if an advowson descended in coparcenary, and the sisters could not agree in

murder

a serious felony (as burglary or sexual battery) compare misdemeanor-manslaughter at manslaughter NOTE: Felony murder is usually considered first-degree murder. Felony murder does not require specific intent to kill, and an accessory to the felony may also

Magistrate

Magistrate, means the Judicial Magistrate of the first class, or as the case may be, the Metropolitan Magistrate, exercising jurisdiction under the Code of Criminal Procedure,

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Bill of Rights

Rome or professing the popish religion or marrying a papist, and enacts that every sovereign shall on the first day of the meeting of his first Parliament or at coronation (which shall first happen) make and subscribe

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

Equity of redemption

subsequent mortgage has not been registered and is not secured by possession of the documents. Before 1926, the first mortgagee might either before or after the mortgage of the equity of redemption, in the absence of any

Holiday, or Holyday

on every day of the year except Sundays, Good Friday, Monday and Tuesday in Easter-week, Whit Monday, the first Monday in August, Christmas-day and the next following working day, and all days appointed by proclamation to be

Law Reform (UK)

way of damages shall not in the aggregate exceed the amount of the damages awarded by the judgment first given; and in any of those actions, other than that in which judgment is first given, the plaintiff

Race of diligence

Race of diligence, A first come, first served disposition of assets, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. Means a first-come, first-served disposition of assets,

Reading of a Bill

Reading of a Bill, in House of Commons, the three stages through which a Bill passes, are: First Reading, Second Reading and Third Reading. During the first reading only short title is read by the clerk.

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