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general law
general law : a law that is unrestricted as to time, is applicable throughout the entire territory subject to the power of the legislature that enacted it, and applies to all persons in the same class called also general act general statute compare local law, public law, special law ...
Revised Statutes
Revised Statutes. A republication by Government authority of such public general statutes as are still unrepealed, or parts of them. See ACT OF PARLIAMENT....
Poyning's Act
Poyning's Act, or STATUTE OF DROGHEDA, and Act of Parliament, made in Ireland, 10 Hen. 7, c. 22, AD 1495; so called because Sir Edward Poynings was lieutenant there when it was made, whereby all general statutes before then made in England were declared of force in Ireland, which, before that time, they were not, 12 Rep. 109; 3 Hall, Const. Hist. c. xviii. p. 361....
importune
importune -tuned -tun·ing vt : to press or urge with troublesome persistence [who solicits, requests, commands, s or intentionally aids another person to engage in conduct which constitutes an offense "General Statutes of Connecticut"] vi : to beg, urge, or press another persistently or troublesomely compare coerce, solicit ...
muniment
muniment [Anglo-French, from Middle French, defense, from Latin munimentum, from munire to fortify] : a record (as a deed, statutory grant, or judgment) that passes title to real property and enables a person to defend the title or otherwise maintain a claim to real rights or privileges [ of title] often used in pl. [the s of which the chain of record title is formed "Connecticut General Statutes"] ...
remediate
remediate : to make the target of remedial action [the commissioner of environmental protection…shall conduct remedial actions necessary to the pollution at or on the site "General Statutes of Connecticut"] ...
Provisor
Provisor, a purveyor; also one who sued to the Court of Rome for a provision or prearrangement that a particular benefice when it should fall vacant should be bestowed, for an immediate payment by the provisor, on a particular person.Various statutes, called generally 'Statutes of Pro-visors,' were passed in ancient times to suppress such persons in 25 Hen. 8, c. 20, s. 7, the first and most important of them, 25 Edw. 3, st. 5, c. 22, is called 'the Statute of the Provision and Pr'munire.' See PRAEMUNIRE....
Act of Parliament
Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an Act passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911, a law made by the sovereign 'by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act, 1911, and by authority of the same'; also called a 'statute.'Means a bill passed by two Houses of Parliament and assented to by the President and in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, operative from the date of notification in the Gazette, Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha, April, 2002.Means an action; a thing done or established; a written law formally passed by the legislative power of a State; a Bill enacted by the legislature into a law, as distinguished from a bill which is in the form of draft of a law or legislative proposal pres...
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
Limitation of actions and prosecutions. By various statutes, of which the first was 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, the (English) Limitation Act, 1623, and the principal succeeding ones, the Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 42), the (English) Civil Procedure Act (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27) [see Read v. Price, (1909) 2 KB 724], and 37 & 38 Vict. c. 57, the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1874, certain periods are fixed within which, upon the principle Interest reipublic' ut sit finis litium, particular actions must be brought or proceedings taken.In the case of simple contract the remedy on the contract is barred, leaving the creditor free to enforce his claims by other means which may be still available, such as enforcing a lien, subsequent acknowledgment by the debtor or appropriation of payments, but not by way of set-off (9 Geo. 4, c. 14, s. 3). In regard to land, the right to it is destroyed after the statutory period and neither re-entry nor acknowledgment after the laps...
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