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Gave
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give
give gave giv·en giv·ing 1 a : to make a gift of [I the remainder of my estate to my
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Ringing the changes
having bargained with the prisoner, who was selling fruit about the street, to have five apricots for sixpence, gave him a good shilling to change. The prisoner put the shilling into his mouth, as if to test
Settled land
& 22 Vict. c. 77; 27 & 28 Vict. c. 45; and 37 & 38 Vict. c. 33), gave large powers to the Court of Chancery, with the concurrence of the parties interested, to direct sales and
Uses
the rules of the Common Law relating to the inheritable estates of intestates: and the special customs of gavelkind, borough-English, and copyholds, determined the particular descent of uses. This is an illustration of the well-known maxim, 'quitas
Restitutio in integrum
however, cases in which minores could obtain no restitutio; for instance, when a minor with a fradulent design gave himself out to be a major, when he confirmed the transaction after coming of age, and in other
Fidei-commissum
legal means of enforcing the due discharge of the trust called fidei-commissum till the time of Augustus, who gave the consuls jurisdiction in the fidei-commissa. Fidei-commissa seem to have been introduced in order to evade the Civil
Churchesset
says it signifies a certain measure of wheat, which in times past every man, on St. Martin'' day, gave to holy church, as well in the times of the Britons of the English; yet many great persons
Adultery
no collusion or connivance, and that the alleged charges have not been condoned. The Matrimonial Causes Act, 1923, gave a wife the right to divorce a husband for adultery only if committed after the marriage and since
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