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Intoxicating liquor

of the peace, and one from the Inland Revenue, the first discretionary, and the second obtainable as of right, on production

League of Nations (Societe des Nations)

a Council; a larger Assembly; a Secretariat which constitutes the first International Civil Service; the Hague Court of Justice, the first

Letters-patent, or letters overt

'patent-right' is a privilege granted by the Crown to the first inventor of any new contrivance in manufactures, that he alone

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Remainder

at the same time, notwithstanding it vests in the person first becoming capable, yet it shall divest as to the proportions

Coparceners or parceners

the eldest sister were dead, her issue should not choose first, but the next sister. But if an advowson descended in

Undivided shares in land

the grantees, or if there are more than four, the first four named in the conveyance joint tenants upon the statutory

Reading of a Bill

Commons, the three stages through which a Bill passes, are: First Reading, Second Reading and Third Reading. During the first reading

Year

(q.v.) 366 days, i.e., fifty-two weeks and two days. The first day of the year was legally altered for England from

Tacking

law was that, 'if a third mortgagee buys in the first mortgage, though it be pendente lite, pending a bill brought

Step or proceeding

of this sub-s.:- (a) the expression 'first hearing' meant the first date for any step or proceedings mentioned in the summons

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