Quarantine, or Quarentaine. 1. By Magna Carta, the widow shall not be distrained to marry afresh, if she choose to live without a husband, but she shall not, however, marry against the consent of the Lord; and nothing shall be taken for assignment of her dower, but she shall remain in her husband's capital mansion-house for forty days after his death, during which time her dower shall be assigned. These forty days are called the widow's quarantine. Marriage during these forty days forfeits the dower. This right was enforced by writ of Quarantina habenda. See 1 Steph. Com.2. A quantity of land containing forty perches, Leg. Hen. I., c. 16.3. A regulation by which communication with persons, ships, or goods arriving from places infected with the plague, or other contagious disease, or liable thereto, is interdicted for a certain period. The term is derived from the Italian quaranta, forty; it being supposed, that if no infectious disease break out within forty days or six weeks, no furth...
Sturges Bourne's Acts. (English) (1) 58 Geo. 3, c. 69, the Vestries Act, 1818 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Vestries'), as to notice of vestries, qualification for vestry meetings, etc. (repealed as to rural parishes by the Local Government Act, 1894), preservation of parish books and other matters; and (2) 59 Geo. 3, c. 12, the Poor Relief Act, 1819 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Poor'), by which the inhabitants of any parish, in vestry assembled, were enabled to commit the management of its poor to a committee of the parishioners appointed for that purpose and called a 'select vestry,' to whose orders the overseers were bound to conform (this portion of the Act, being superseded by the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, is repealed by the Statute Laws Revision Act, 1873). See now Poor Law Act, 1930, and POOR LAW....
Vacation Sittings. Under the (English) Jud. Act, 1873, s. 28 (replaced by Jud. Act, 1925, s. 54), and R.S.C. 1883, Ord. LXIII. R. 11, two 'vacation judges' of the High Court sit during vacations, for the hearing of such applications as may require to be immediately or promptly heard....
Bank, Commercially it is a place where money is deposited for the purpose of being lent out at interest, returned by exchange, disposed of to profit, or to be drawn out again as the owner shall call for it. Special provisions are contained in the (English) Companies Act, 1929 relating to Banks. By s. 358, no company, association or partnership consisting of more than ten members shall be formed for the purpose of carrying on a banking business unless it is registered under the Act or formed in pursuance of an Act of Parliament or of letters patent. By s. 360, the liability of the members of a banking limited company remains unlimited in respect of the bank's liability for bank-notes issued by it. As to signature of balance sheets, see s. 129 and ANNUAL RETURNS, ss. 108 and 361. See also JOINT STOCK BANKS and LIMITED LABILITY, and consult Grant, Paget, or Walker on Banking, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Bank.'Means financial institution engaged in the accepting of deposits of money, granting...
Leeman's Acts. (English) So called-after the introducer, Mr. George Leeman, M.P. for York City. (1) The Banking Companies (Shares) Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 29), by which contracts for sale of bank shares are void unless the numbers of the shares sold are set forth in the contract; this Act is believed to be a dead letter on the Stock Exchanges, but is in full legal force, Neilson v. James, (1882) 9 QBD 546. (2) The Borough Funds Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 91), much amended (see BOROUGH FUND) by the Borough Funds Act, 1903-authorising the application of the funds of municipal corporations, and other governing bodies, under certain conditions, towards promoting or opposing Parliamentary and other proceedings for the benefit or protection of the inhabitants. See now Local Government Act, 1933 (22 & 33 Geo. 5, c. 51), which repeals the Act of 1903 except as to London....
Life Insurance Corporation, means the Lie Insurance Corporation of India established under section 3 of the Life Insurance Corporation Act. [Small Industries Development Bank of India Act, 1989, s. 2 (ha)]Means the Life Insurance Corporation of India established under the life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956 (31 of 1956). [Income Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80C]...
Year, means a period commencing on 1st April and ending on 31st March next following. [Rajasthan Public Libraries Act, 2006, s. 2(t)]Means a year commencing on 1st day of April. [Equity Linked Savings Scheme, 2005, s. 2(g)][fr. gear, Sax.], 365 days, twelve calendar months, fifty-two weeks and one day, or in Leap Year (q.v.) 366 days, i.e., fifty-two weeks and two days.The first day of the year was legally altered for England from the 25th of March to 1st of January in and after 1752 by the Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750 (24 Geo. 2, c. 23) (Chitty's Statutes, tit. ' Time '), but as appears from the preamble to that statute, the 1st of January had been the first day of the year in Scotland, in other nations, and by ' common usage throughout the whole kingdom.' See CALENDAR generally, when a statute speaks of a year it must be considered as twelve calendar and not lunar months, Bishop of Peterborough v. Catesby, 1608 Cro Jac 166.For the termination of the statutory year for certain finan...
Gazette [fr. gaza, treasure; or gazetta, the name of a coin, about a farthing], the official newspaper of the Government, said to have been first published of Oxford in 1665; on the removal of the Court to London, the title was changed to the London Gazette. It is published on Tuesdays and Fridays, and contains all the acts of state, proclamations, and appointments to offices under the Crown; also all Orders in Council, and such other Orders, Rules, and Regulations as are directed by Act of Parliament to be published therein; also dissolu-tions of partnership, and notices of proceedings in bankruptcy. There is also an Edinburgh Gazette. It is presumed that another Gazette will be issued for N. Ireland, which will be of the same effect as the Dublin Gazette; with regard to S. ireland it does not seem certain what steps will be taken in this direction. By various Acts (especially the (English) Documentary Evidence Acts, 1868, 1882, and 1895) publication in the Gazette is made evidence of...
Government work, means a work which is made or published by or under the direction or control of--(i) the Government or any department of the Government;(ii) any Legislature in India;(iii) any court, tribunal or other judical authority of India. [Copyright Act, 1957 (14 of 1957), ss. 2(k)]...
Joint-tenancy. This tenancy is created where the same interest in real or personal property is, by the act of the party, passed by the same matter of conveyance or claim in solido, and not as merchan-dise, or for purposes of speculation, to two or more persons in the same right, either simply, or by construction or operation of law jointly, with a jus accrescendi, that is, a gradual concentration of property from more to fewer, by the accession of the part of him or them that die to the survivors or survivor, till it passes to a single hand, and the joint-tenancy ceases.Anciently, joint-tenancy was favoured because it did not induce fractions of estates, and returning to early principles the (English) Land Legislation of 1925 has employed the tenure generally as the machinery by which legal estate may in such cases always be in some person, called the estate owner, who is competent to give a title to the whole estate without the concurrence of other parties. that legal estate has been ...