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of the Institutes is comprised. The first book treats of the rights of Persons; the second, third, and five first titles of the fourth, of Things; and Actions are the subjects treated of from the sixth title

Wills

will shall be revoked by presumption of an intention on the ground of alteration in circumstances; by the twentieth s., 'that no will or codicil shall be revoked otherwise than as aforesaid, or by another will or

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Adoption

Adoption, an act by which a person adopts as his own the child of another. Until recently there was no law of adoption in this country though it exists in other countries, as France and Germany,...

Scotland and Ireland

Vict. c. 113, and 26 & 27 Vict. c. 89 (Ireland); but irremovability to Ireland is acquired by five years' continuous residence in England, under the (English) Poor Removal Act, 1900. Acts of Parliament passed since the

Knockabout

A small yacht generally from fifteen to twenty five feet in length having a mainsail and a jib a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit

Kin

A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind with from five to twenty five silken strings

General Council

with the Council's bona fide decision, Allbutt v. Medical Council, (1889) 23 QBD 400. The Council consists of five Crown nominees, twenty-two persons chosen by the same number of universities and colleges, and five persons elected by

Light Railway

1912 (2 & 3 Geo. 5, c. 19), the powers of the Light Railway Commissioners were continued for five years and several amendments made in the Act of 1896. See also Part V. of the (English) Railways

Valuation list

7 Edw. 7, c. cxi., s. 29), a valuation list (subject as in the Act mentioned) lasts for five years from its approval by the assessment committee, and by s. 45 is conclusive for the purposes of

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