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Residence
illness of wife or child for six months) for more than three months in any year, he shall forfeit, unless resident at some other of his benefices, a certain portion of the value of his benefice. It
Printers
who shall take any part in publishing or dispersing any printed matter without such name and address, shall forfeit for each copy a sum not more than five pounds (2 & 3 Vict. c. 12, s. 2);
Forfeiture of shares
Forfeiture of shares. The number of shares forfeited by a limited company must be stated in the annual return
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Pretensed right
of the reversion or remainder, for one whole year, on pain that both purchaser and vendor should each forfeit the value of such land to the King and the prosecutor; but a right of entry may be
Mortgage
security in satisfaction of the interest of his debt, the principal remaining due and the estate never becoming forfeited, but redeemable at anytime; and the creditor not being entitled to sue at law in the absence of
Pr'munire
that, from the conviction, the defendant be out of the Crown's protection, and his lands and goods are forfeited to the Crown. Until the passing of the repealed 5 Eliz. c. 1, it was perhaps lawful to
Pawnbroker
loans above 10l. Pawnbrokers must take out annual excise licences from the Inland Revenue Commissioners, which may be forfeited on conviction of fraud or receiving stolen goods, knowing them to be stolen, and are not grantable without
Outlawry
59), in civil proceedings. In criminal proceedings it is practically disused, but is formally kept alive by the Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23), which Act, while abolishing forfeiture for felony expressly provides that
Necessity, homicide by
office as obliges one, in the execution of public justice, to put a malefactor to death who has forfeited his life to the laws of his country; but to kill a man in order to eat him,
Justifiable homicide
is of various kinds:- (1) The due execution of public justice, inputting a malefactor to death who has forfeited his life by the laws of his country. (2) It may be committed for the advancement of public
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