Gilbert - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: gilbertGilbert Acts (English)
Gilbert Acts (English) , the Clergy Residences Repair Act, 1776 (17 Geo. 3, c. 53), introduced into Parliament by Mr. Davies Gilbert, providing for the building and repairing of parsonages, with the amending Acts 21 Geo. 3, c. 66, 7 Geo. 4, c. 66, 1 & 2 Vict. c. 23, and 28 & 29 Vict. c. 69, described as the Gilbert Acts in the marginal note of s. 64 of the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Act, 1871. Mr. Gilbert also introduced 22 Geo. 3, c. 83, first establishing unions of parishes with guardians of the poor, superseded by the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, and repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act, 1871....
Gilbert and Sullivan
William Schwenk Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan who collaborated on a number of light operas See Gilbert...
Gilbert
William Schwenk Gilbert an English dramatist born at London Nov 18 1836 He is most famous for his collaborations with Sir Arthur Sullivan on a number of humorous light operas which are known as ldquoGilbert and Sullivan Operasrdquo His first play was ldquoDulcamarardquo 1866 He also wrote ldquoThe Palace of Truthrdquo 1870 ldquoPygmalion and Galateardquo 1871 ldquoSweetheartsrdquo 1874 ldquoEngagedrdquo 1877 ldquoThe Mountebanksrdquo 1891 and in collaboration with Sir A Sullivan who wrote the music he wrote ldquoThe Sorcererrdquo 1877 ldquoH M S Pinaforerdquo 1878 ldquoThe Pirates of Penzancerdquo 1879 ldquoPatiencerdquo 1881 ldquoIolantherdquo 1883 ldquoThe Mikadordquo 1885 ldquoRuddygorerdquo 1887 ldquoThe Yeomen of the Guardrdquo 1888 ldquoThe Gondoliersrdquo 1889 and ldquoUtopia limitedrdquo 1893 The light operas proved very popular and continue to be performed over one hundred years later He also published other works...
Gilbertian
Of pertaining to or characteristic of the style of William S Gilbert as Gilbertian libretti...
Micronesian
Of or pertaining to Micronesia a collective designation of the islands in the western part of the Pacific Ocean embracing the Marshall and Gilbert groups the Ladrones the Carolines etc...
Bounty of Queen Anne
Bounty of Queen Anne, given by royal charter, which was confirmed by Queen Anne (2 Anne, c. 11), whereby all the revenue of first-fruits and tenths (see those titles) which belonged to the English Crown was transferred by Queen Anne to trustees for ever, called 'Governors,' to form a perpetual fund for the augmentation of the maintenance of the poor clergy. After the appropriation of the revenue arising from the payment of first-fruits and tenths to the augmentation of small livings, it was considered a proper extension of this principle to exempt the smaller livings from the incumbrance of those demands; and, for that end, the bishops of each diocese were directed to inquire and certify into the Exchequer what livings did not exceed 50l. a year, according to the improved value at that time; and it was further provided that such livings should be discharged from those dues in future. It has been still further regulated by subsequent statutes, especially by the Queen Anne's Bounty Act, ...
Building contract
Building contract, 'A building contract means a contract for the building of anything--not necessarily a house, but any other physical construction', Carlisle R.D.C. v. Carlisle Corporation, (1909) 1 KB 471 (483).Building contract, is a contract by which a person (commonly called contractor) undertakes for consideration to carry out works of or for construction (or demolition) for another person (commonly called the employer or owner), Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(2), 4th Edn., Para 301, p. 276; Carlisle RDC v. Carlisle Corpn., (1999) 1 KB 471; Gilbert Ash (Northern) Ltd. v. Modern Engineering (Bristol) Ltd., (1974) AC 689: (1973) 3 All ER 195....
Circumstantial evidence
Circumstantial evidence, presumptive proof when the fact itself is not proved by direct testimony, but is to be inferred from circumstances, which either necessarily or usually attend such facts. It is obvious that a presumption is more or less likely to be true according as it is more or less probable that the circumstances would not have exited unless the fact which is inferred from them had also existed; and that a presumption can only be relied on until the contrary is actually proved. Circumstantial evidence has, in some instances, undoubtedly been found to produce a much stronger assurance of a prisoner's guilt than could have been produced by more direct and positive testimony. As a general principle, however, it is true that positive evidence of a fact from credible eye-witnesses is the most satisfactory that can be produced; and the universal feeling of mankind leans to this species of evidence in preference to that which is merely circumstantial. If positive evidence of a fac...
Collateral warrants
Collateral warrants, abolished by the (English) Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74), s. 14, was where the heir's title to the land neither was, nor could have been, derived from the warranting ancestor, as where a younger brother released to his father's disseisor with warranty, this was collateral to the elder brother. The whole doctrine of collateral warranty is repugnant to justice; and even its technical grounds are so obscure that the ablest legal writers are not agreed upon the subject, Wright's Tenures, 168; Gilbert's Tenures, 143....
Contingent use
Contingent use, is a use limited in a conveyance of land, which may or may not happen to vest, according to the contingency expressed in the limitation of such use: see Cun. Law. Dict.; 1 Rep. 11; Gilbert on Uses, 3rd Edn. By e.B. Sugden, p. 164 n....
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