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Fortune-tellers

Fortune-tellers, persons pretending or professing to tell fortunes are punishable as rogues and vagabonds under the Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83), s. 4. See, further, GYPSIES; PALMISTRY; and VAGRANT.

Extension and renewal

Extension and renewal, to 'extend' means to enlarge, expand, lengthen, prolong, to carry out further than its original limit. 'Extension' according to Black's Law Dictionary, means enlargement of the main body; addition of something smaller than...

Extent

Extent, the peculiar remedy to recover debts of record due to the Crown; it differs from an ordinary writ of execution at the suit of a subject, because under it the body, lands, and goods of...

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Faggot votes

Faggot votes. A faggot vote is where a man is formally possessed of a right to vote for a member of Parliament, without possessing the substance which the vote should represent; as if he is enabled...

False pretence, obtaining property

False pretence, obtaining property, this offence, though allied to larceny, is distinguishable from it, as being perpetrated through the medium of a mere fraud; it is a misdemeanour at Common Law. By the Larceny Act, 1916,...

Father

Father, 'father', in the case of any one whose personal law permits adoption, shall include an adoptive further. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(20)]

Fight

Fight. See CHALLENGES TO FIGHT. A fight is a combat between two and more persons whether with or without weapons. It is not possible to enunciate any general rule as to what shall be deemed to...

Final

Final, The expression 'final' prima facie connotes that an order passed on appeal under the Act is conclusive and no further appeal lies against it. The expression 'final' may have a restrictive meaning in other contexts,...

Final decree or judgment

Final decree or judgment, a conclusive decision of the Court, as distinguished from interlocutory. An order upon an undertaking to lodge costs in Court is not a final order under the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914, ss....

Food and sale

Food and sale, 'Food' is defined by S. 2(v) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 as meaning 'any article used as food or drink for human consumption other than drugs and water and includes:...

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