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Game certificate

Game certificate, the expression used to designate a game licence (q.v.) in Acts prior to the (English) Game Licences Act, 1860...


Hare

Hare, a beast of warren. A hare is 'game' within the (English) Game Acts and Game Certificate Acts (see GAME); but by the (English) Hares Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 29), both occupier and owner may kill hares without a certificate, and by the (English) Ground Game Act, 1880 (43 & 44 Vict. c. 47), amended as to moorlands by the (English) Ground Game (Amendment) Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 21), the occupier has, 'incident to and inseparable from his occupation' a concurrent right with any other person to kill hares and rabbits on the land occupied. Any agreement purporting to divest an occupier of this right is by s. 3 void. As to such agreements, see Stanton v. Brown, (1901) 1 KB 671; Sherrard v. Gascoigne, (1900) 2 QB 279. See Waters v. Phillips, (1910) 2 KB 465, and Aggs on Agricultural Holdings.The Hares Preservation (Ireland) Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 23), following 27 Geo. 3, c. 35, an act of the Irish Parliament repealed in the same year, made the period between 20th of April and 1...


Game

Game [fr. gaman, Sax.], all sorts of birds and beasts that are objects of the chase. The term is defined by the Game Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 32), as including for the purposes of that Act 'hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor-game, black game, and bustards'; but some of its provisions are directed to trespass in pursuit of woodcocks, snipes, quails, land rails, and coneys.At Common Law game belongs to a tenant and not to a landlord, but leases frequently contain a reservation of the game to the landlord, and before the Game Act, 1831, the right to kill game was restricted to freeholders having 100l. a year freehold, or leaseholders having a 99 years' leasehold of 150l. a year, etc. This Act repeals the (English) Qualification Act of 22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 25, and (after giving the game to landlords in the case of leases made before the Act for less than 21 years-a provision now expired) protects reservations of game by penal provisions. The Act also requires all persons k...


Certificate

Certificate, a testimony given in writing to declare or verify the truth of anything. Certificates are frequently referred to or required by Statute. A certificate is the usual evidence of the title to shares in a company. See (English) Companies Act, 1929, ss. 67 and 68; for Certificate of Incorporation, see ss. 15 and 329, ibid.; and commencement of business, s. 94, ibid., and s. 82, ibid., as to registration of charges. Also ALIENS and Share Certificate; and see Land Certificate.A document in which a fact is formally attested, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Trial by certificate, which has long been obsolete, took place in those cases in which the evidence of the person certifying was, by custom or otherwise, the only proper criterion of the point in dispute; see 3 Bl. Com. 333.As to when certificates and examined copies are admissible in evidence, consult Taylor on Evidence, and the (English) Documentary Evidence Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 113) (UK).As to the Master's Certificate in...


Gaming or gambling

Gaming or gambling, the playing any game of chance, as cards, dice, etc., for money, or money's worth.The still unrepealed 33 Hen. 8, c. 9, prohibits the keeping of any common house for dice, cards, or any unlawful games, under penalties of 40s. for every day of so keeping the house, and 6s. 8d. for every time of playing therein; and the (English) Gaming Act, 1738 (12 Geo. 2, c. 28) (applied by the Gaming Act, 1739 (13 Geo. 2, c. 19), to all games with dice, except backgammon, and by the (English) Gaming Act, 1744 (18 Geo. 2, c. 34), to 'roulet, otherwise roly-poly'), declares hazard and other games to be lotteries, so that the keepers of tables for them are liable to penalties under the (English) Lotteries Act, 1721 (8 Geo. 1, c. 2), the (English)Lotteries Act, 1710 (9 Anne, c. 6), and the Lotteries Act, 1698 (10 & 11 Wm. 3, c. 17); the system ofincorporation of previous statutes by referencebeing carried very far in gaming legislation.Gaming in Public-houses, etc.--Sect. 79 of the (E...


Stock certificates

Stock certificates. By the National Debt Act, 1870, it is provided that a holder of British Government Stock may obtain a stock certificate; that is to say, a certificate of title to his stock or any part thereof, with coupons annexed, entitle in the bearer of the coupons to the dividends on the stock (s. 26); that a certificate shall not be issued in respect of any sum of stock not being 50l., or a multiple of 50l., or exceeding 1000l. (s. 28); that a trustee of stock shall not apply for or hold a stock certificate, unless authorized to do so by the terms of his trust (s. 29); that no notice of any trust in respect of any certificate or coupon shall be receivable (s. 30); that where a stock certificate is outstanding the stock represented thereby shall cease to be transferable in the Bank books (s. 31); that a tock certificate, unless a name is inscribed thereon, shall entitle the bearer to the stock therein described, and shall be transferable by delivery (s. 32). The Act also contai...


Common gaming house

Common gaming house, 'common gaming house' means--(i) in the case of gaming--(a) on the market price of cotton, opium or other commodity or on the digits of the number used is stating such price, or(b) on the amount of variation in the market price of any such commodity or on the digits of the number used in stating the amount of such variation, or(c) on the market price of any stock or share or on the digits of the number used in stating such price, or(d) on the occurrence or non-occurrence of rain or other natural event, or(e) on the quantity of rainfall or on the digits of the number used in stating such quantity, or(f) on the pictures, digits or figures of one or more playing cards or other documents or objects bearing numbers, or on the total of such digits or figures, or on the basis of the occurrence or non-occurrence of any uncertain future event, or on the result of any draw, or on the basis of the sequence or any permutation or combination of such pictures, digits, figures, n...


certificate

certificate 1 a : a document containing a certified statement esp. as to the truth of something [a birth ] b : a document certifying that a person has fulfilled the requirements of and may practice in a specified field [a teaching ] 2 : certification [the signature…constitutes a that the attorney or party has read the document "U.S. Code"] 3 : a document that is proof of ownership or indebtedness [stock s] [gold s] [sər-ti-fi-kāt] vt -cat·ed -cat·ing : to testify or authorize by a certificate ;esp : to recognize as having met special qualifications (as of a governmental agency or professional board) within a field see also certificated security at security cer·tif·i·ca·to·ry [-kə-tȯr-ē] adj ...


certificate of title

certificate of title 1 : a certificate of ownership stating that the title to the specified property is free and clear except for any encumbrance (as a mortgage) listed on it: as a : a certificate issued by a motor vehicle registry called also title b : a certificate issued by a registry of deeds see also torrens system 2 : a document issued by a title abstracter (as an attorney) giving a legal opinion as to the status of a property's title based on a title search or abstract of title compare deed ...


certification

certification 1 a : the act of certifying b : the state of being certified see also certiorari NOTE: Certification of an interlocutory decision by a trial court allows an appellate court to review the decision and to answer a controlling question of law. Certification is often used in state courts as well as federal courts and, where available, allows a federal court to refer a question of state law to the state's highest court. Certification is also used to refer to a judge's order that allows a suit to be maintained as a class action. 2 : a certified statement ...


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