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Pension
Pension, an annual allowance made to any one, usually in consideration of past services. By the (English) Succession to the Crown Act, 1707, (6 Anne, c. 7) (c. 41 in the Revised Statutes), and 1 Geo....
Picketing
Picketing [fr. piquet Fr., a diminutive of pique a pike]. In its legal sense this word means the stationing of men to watch and accost workmen passing between their homes and place of employment in order...
Ragged Schools
Ragged Schools, were exempted from poor and other rates by the Sunday and Ragged Schools Rating (Exemption from Rating) Act, 1869, in which a 'ragged school' means: Any school used for the gratuitous education of children...
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Spiritual corporations
Spiritual corporations, corporations the members of which are entirely spiritual persons, and incorpor-ated as such, for the furtherance of religion and perpetuating the rights of the Church. They are of two sorts: (1) Sole, as bishops,...
Combination
Combination, a banding together of persons for any particular purpose, as of workmen for the purposes of a strike. See (English) Conspiracy and Protection of Property act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 86), by which...
Contract, breach of, inducement of
Contract, breach of, inducement of. In the case of seamen it is by s. 236 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, an offence to persuade or attempt to persuade seamen or apprentices to desert or...
kidnapping
kidnapping or kid·nap·ing n : an act or instance or the crime of seizing, confining, inveigling, abducting, or carrying away a person by force or fraud often with a demand for ransom or in furtherance of...
Assent of personal representatives
Assent of personal representatives, At Common Law the personal estate passing by the will of a deceased person, including chattels real vested in the executor, virtute officii. The property passed to the legatee as soon as...
Sanction
Solemn or ceremonious ratification an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body establishment or furtherance of anything by giving authority to it...
man Friday
A person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose a devoted assistant
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