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Adoptive Act of Parliament
The (English) Public Improvements Acts. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Public Improvements.' The (English) Infectious Diseases Notification Act, 1879--made general in England by Act of 1899: The Infectious Diseases Prevention Act, 1890 (all repealed): The (English) Public Health … rural parishes can only be adopted by Parish Meetings:-- The (English) Lighting and Watching Act, 1833. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Gas.' The (repealed) (English) Baths and Washhouses Acts, 1846 to 1899, and London Government Act, 1899 (62
Bankrupt
141. The Bankrupt Law is distinguished from the ordinary law between debtor and creditor as involving these three general principles:--(1) a summary and immediate seizure of all the debtor's property; (2) a distribution of it among the … 4, after having been materially extended and altered by numerous statues of early date, and more recently by statutes of 1831, 1849, 1861, 1869, 1883, 1890 and 1913, is now mostly contained in the (English) Bankruptcy Act,1914
Appropriation of payments
the application to one of several debts of a sum of money paid by a debtor on a general account. The general rule as to appropriation of payments is this: The debtor may in the first instance … (1816) 1 Mer 605; The Mecca, 1897, AC 286. A creditor can appropriate a general payment to a statute-barred debt, but he cannot appropriate such a payment made before judgment, after a judgment deciding that such a
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Banking policy
141. The Bankrupt Law is distinguished from the ordinary law between debtor and creditor as involving these three general principles:--(1) a summary and immediate seizure of all the debtor's property; (2) a distribution of it among the … 4, after having been materially extended and altered by numerous statues of early date, and more recently by statutes of 1831, 1849, 1861, 1869, 1883, 1890 and 1913, is now mostly contained in the (English) Bankruptcy Act,1914
Lease and release
in the Statute of Uses which converts all vested uses at once into legal estates. The convenience and general applicability of the lease ad release recommended and established it as a common assurance. For it was preferable
Any
context and the subject- matter of the statute. It is often synonymous with 'either', 'every' or 'all'. Its generality may be restricted by the context;' (Black's Law Dictionary, 5th Edn.), Shri Balaganesna Metals v. M. N. Shanmugham
Pr'munire
statute of pr'munire, of which 16 Rich. 2, c. 5, passed in 1392, is the 'Statute of Pr'munire' generally so called, and incorporated by reference in many subsequent statutes; e.g., in 25 Hen. 8, c. 20, s.
general law
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Stamp duties
Commissioners of Inland Revenue might remit the penalties payable on stamping, after execution, unstamped or insufficiently stamped instruments generally. Consolidating Act of 1891.--Many alterations in the law of stamps having been effected since the passing of the … the Forgery Act, 1913. Since 1891 the duties on various documents [see especially CONTRACT NOTE, and, generally, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Stamps,' and Statutes of Practical Utility (Annual), tit. 'Stamps'] have been altered by various Finance Acts, of
Quando verba statuti sunt specialia, ratio autem generalis, generaliter statutum est intelligendum
Quando verba statuti sunt specialia, ratio autem generalis, generaliter statutum est intelligendum (10 Rep. 101), when the words of a statute are special, but the reason
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