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Lands and buildings
Lands and buildings, The word 'building' that which is built; a structure, edifice: now a structure of the nature of a house built where it is to stand. Includes the site of the building as its...
Rabbit
Rabbit, also termed 'coney' in the (English) Game Act, 1831, ss. 30-32 of which render trespass in the daytime in pursuit of conies punishable on summary conviction by fine upto 2l; trespassers may be required to...
Misrepresentation
Misrepresentation, 'Misrepresentation' means and includes-- (1) the positive assertion, in a manner not warranted by the information of the person making it, of that which is not true, though he believes it to be true; (2)...
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Premises
Premises (pr'missa), in logic, propositions antecedently supposed or proved. In a deed the 'premises' are all the parts preceding the habendum. The word properly applies to what has been previously described or mentioned, and is used...
Prohibition
Prohibition, a writ to forbid any court to proceed in any cause there depending, on the suggestion that the cognizance thereof belongs not to such Court. It is a remedy provided by the Common Law against...
Pr'dial tithes
Pr'dial tithes [fr. pr'dium, Lat., ground], such as arise merely and immediately from the ground 'as grain of all sorts, hops, hay, wood, fruit, herbs, 2 Steph. Com.
Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874
Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874 (English) (37 & 38 Vict. c. 85). By this Act'which proceeds on the preamble that it is expedient that in certain cases further regulations should be made for the administration of...
Reasonable restriction
Reasonable restriction, the expression 'reasonable restriction' signifies that the limitation imposed on a person in enjoyment of the right should not be arbitrary or of an excessive nature, beyond what is required in the interests of...
Rent
Rent [fr. reditus Lat.], a certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tenements corporeal; it may be regarded as of a two fold nature--first, as some-thing issuing out of the land, as a compensation for...
Replevin
Replevin, a personal action to recover possession in specie of goods unlawfully taken (generally, but not exclusively, applicable to the taking of goods distrained for rent), by contesting the validity of the seizure, whereas, if the...
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