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Birth, Concealing
Birth, Concealing. See Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 60, which enacts that every person who shall, by any secret disposition (see R. v. Brown, 1870 LR 1 CCR 244) of the dead body of...
Alien enemy
Alien enemy, a subject of a nation which is at war with this country. A contract with him is void, Brandon v. Nesbitt, (1794) 6 TR 23, unless he have a safe conduct or be living...
Act of Parliament
Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an...
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Act of Settlement
Act of Settlement, 12 & 13 Wm. 3, c. 2 (1700), limiting the Crown, after the death of William III. And Princess (afterwards Queen) Anne, to the Princess Sophia of Hanover, and to the heirs of...
Acting honestly
Acting honestly, an authority is not acting honestly where an authority has a suspicion that there is something wrong and does not make further enquiries. Being aware of possible harm to others, and acting in spite...
Bill in criminal cases
Bill in criminal cases. Grand Juries were abolished by the (English) Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 36), from 1st September, 1933, except in certain cases [s. 1 (9)]....
Ad ostium ecclesi', Dower
Ad ostium ecclesi', Dower. Where a tenant in fee-simple of full age, openly 'at the door of the church' (where all marriages were formerly celebrated) after affiance made and troth plighted between them, endowed his wife...
Ad quod damnum
Ad quod damnum, a writ which ought to be issued before the Crown grants further liberties, as a fair, market, etc., which may be prejudicial to others; it is addressed to the sheriff, to inquire what...
Adjournment-day
Adjournment-day, a further day appointed by the Judges at the Nisi Prius sittings to try issues in fact which were not then ready for trial. See NOTICE OF TRIAL.
Affiliation
Affiliation, includes in relation to a college, recognition of such college by association of such college with, and admission of such college to the privileges of, a scheduled university. [National Commission for Minority Education Institutions Act,...
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