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Arches, Court of

Arches, Court of [fr. curia de arcubus, Lat.], a court of appeal belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the judge of which is called the Dean of the Arches, because his Court was anciently held in...

Charged

Charged, the word 'charged' does not, in the Notification No. 878-F, dt. 21st March, 1922, mean the mere statutory liability to pay tax but goes further and includes the actual charge or levy, Commissioner of Income...

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...

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Cheque

Cheque, defined. [Act (1 of 1879), s. 3; [Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (26 of 1881), s. 6: A 'cheque' is a bill of exchange drawn on a specified banker and not expressed to be payable otherwise...

Contract for sale of land

Contract for sale of land. The incidents of a contract for sale of land re regulated partly by statute and partly by the practice of conveyancers. A contract for sale of land must be in writing,...

Civil nature

Civil nature, The word 'civil' according to dictionary means 'relating to the citizen as an individual; civil rights'. In Black's Law Dictionary it is defined as 'relating to private rights and remedies sought by civil actions...

Coverture

Coverture, the condition of a woman during marriage, because she was then presumed to be under the influence of her husband, so as to be excused from punishment for crimes committed in his presence, except treason,...

Covenant

Covenant [fr. Covenant, Fr.], any agreement, convention, or promise of two or more parties, by deed in writing, signed, sealed, and delivered, by which either of the parties pledges himself to the other that something is...

County Courts

County Courts. The old County Court was a tribunal inident to the jurisdiction of a sheriff, but was not a Court of Record. Proceedings were removable into a superior court by recordari facias loquelam, or writ...

Coparceners or parceners

Coparceners or parceners. The name given to persons who until 1926 inherited an inheritable estate by virtue of descents from the ancestor which conferred on them all an equal title to it. It arose by act...

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