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Constructive trust
is extended to the renewal of leases by one of several persons or partners jointly interested, by an agent, mortgagor, or mortgagee, or by a person jointly interested with an infant, but, if the renewed lease turn … of parties. It arises upon a vendor's lien or charge upon land sold for unpaid purchase money, and generally, when an estate is subject to a trust or equitable interest or lien, and a person purchases it
Husband and wife
the death of the other is uncertain, the younger shall be deemed to have survived the elder. The general rule is that a husband is not bound by his wife's contracts, unless made by his authority, express … desertion, or by consent, and the husband fails to maintain her, she has an irrevocable authority, as an agent of necessity, to pledge his credit for necessaries suitable to her position in life. A policy of insurance
Marriage
license without consent where the parties had subsequently lived together until the passing of the Act. Present Law.--The general purport of the existing law is to require a public ceremony by a clergyman of the Church of … age of 16, the marriage is void. Each party must go through the ceremony, consenting as a free agent without fraud or duress, see Scott v. Sebright, (1886) 12 PD 20. They must be unmarried. If a
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Solicitor
Courts, 'solicitors' business in the Court of Chancery and 'proctors' ecclesiastical and Admiralty business; but it was the general practice, although any person might be admitted to practise as an attorney or solicitor only, to be admitted … not practise before any justices for that county (see s. 54 of that Act). As to solicitors ('Law Agents') is Scotland, see the (English) Solicitors (Scotland) Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 21). As to
Tax
government on persons, entities or properly to yield public revenue, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1469. Some general principles of taxation have been said to be:- (1) The subjects of every State ought to contribute to
Frauds, Statute of
to it in Scotland, was practically copied by the Irish Parliament in 7 Wm. 3, c. 12, applies generally to the British colonies, and, remarks Mr. Chancellor Kent (2 Com. 494, n. (d), 'carries its influence through … created by parol and not put in writing and signed by the parties making the same, or their agents lawfully authorized by writing, have the effect of leases at will only, except in the case of a
Tail
an equitable interest in tail, is an estate limited to a person and the heirs of his body general or special, male or female, and was the creature of the statute De Donis. The estate, if the … against the wish of his father, the tenant for life, the legislature has introduced a reasonable but unaccountable agent, denominated 'the protector of the settlement,' who is, in many respects, but not in all (as will presently
Corporation or body politic
Baroness Wenlock v. River Dee Co., (1887) 36 Ch D 685 n., per Bowen, L.J. It is a general rule that a corporation must contract under its commonseal, but whenever the observance of this rule would occasion … alternative methods of execution by corporations of deeds after 1925 in favour of a purchaser, of appointment of agents to sign instruments after 1925 not under seal, of the execution of conveyances by the corporation as or
Lien
retain a thing for some charge or claim growing out of, or connected with, the identical thing; or general, as a right to retain a thing not only for such charges or claims, but also for a … is asserted must be due to the person claiming it in his own right, and not merely as agent. It must also, in the absence of a special agreement, be a debt or demand due from the
Carrier
Carrier, in its general sense, a person who undertakes to transport the goods of other persons from one place to another for … 2000 (52 of 2000), s. 2(1)(a)] Means someone who has contracted to carry, as opposed to a mere agent who brings about the contract of carriage between two principals, Ulster ' Swift Ltd. v. Taunton Meat Haulage
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