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The half of a circle the part of a circle bounded by its diameter and half of its circumference...
Half bound
Having only the back and corners in leather as a book...
Half-notes
Half-notes. Sending the halves of bank notes is no payment, and the property in the meantime remains in the sender, Smith v. Mundy, (1860) 3 Ell & Ell 22. But see Redmayne v. Burton Lloyd & Co., (1860) 2 LT 324. (Issuing bankers bound to pay half-notes upon indemnity)...
Ad medium filum vi' (aqu')
Ad medium filum vi' (aqu') [filum, a thread, Lat.], an imaginary line in the centre of a road or river. The soil of a highway, and the bed of a non-tidal river, are presumed to belong to the owners of the adjacent lands usque ad medium filum vi', or aqu'; and accordingly where in a conveyance of land it is said to be bounded by a highway or a river, half of the road or half of the bed of the river passes to the grantee, unless a contrary intention is shown; see Micklethwait v. Newlay Bridge Co., (1886) 33 CD 133, and City of London Land Tax Commissioners v. Central London Railway, 1913 AC 364. The presumption does not apply to a railway that is a boundary, Thompson v. Hickman, (1907) 1 Ch 550....
Shop
Shop, a place where thins are kept for sale, usually in small quantities, to the actual consumers. By (English) Shops Act, 1912, s. 19, 'shop' includes any premises where any 'retail trade or business' is carried on; 'retail trade or business' includes the business of a barber or hairdresser, but not the sale of programmes, etc., at places of amusement.A business establishment or place of employment; a factory, office, or other place of business, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1384.The (English) Shops Act, 1934, deals with the employment of persons under eighteen years, repealing s. 2 of the (English) Shops Act, 1912; but the other provisions are unaffected. The 1934 Act, s. 1, provides that no young person (under eighteen) shall be employed for more than the normal maximum working hours, that is, forty-eight hours in any week; it makes restrictions on right employment, has special provisions as to the catering trade, the sale of accessories for Aircraft, motor vehicles and cycle...
Landlord and tenant
Landlord and tenant. A tenancy arises when the owner of an estate inland, called the lessor or landlord, agrees expressly or by implication to allow another person, called the lessee or tenant, to enjoy the exclusive possession and use of the land for a period less than the landlord's estate in it, generally upon payment of rent. The landlord's estate is called the reversion, and at common law, a power of distress for rent is incident to the reversion.Leases or tenancies may be (1) for any agreed period such as for years or less, e.g., for a year, half-year, quarter or week; (2) from year to year; (3) at will; (4) on sufferance; or (5) they may arise upon estoppel; or (6) exist by force of a statute (see LEASE; INCREASE OF RENT). In a narrower sense the words 'tenancy' and 'landlord and tenant' are generally restricted to lease of a house or land for occupational purposes. If nothing appears to the contrary, either expressly or by implication, in the lease or agreement, the landlord is...
Copyhold
Copyhold. Tenure in copyhold has been abolished under the (English) L.P. Acts, 1922 and 1925, and the Amending Acts of 1924 and 1926, but the greater part of the former title on this subject has been retained verbatim in view of the importance of the subject in examining titles. In the previous edition of this work, copyhold was described as a base tenure founded upon immemorial custom and usage; its origin is undiscoverable, but it is said to be the ancient villeinage modified and changed by the commutation of base services into specified rents, either in money or money's worth.A copyhold estate is a parcel of the demesnes of a manor held at the lord's will, and according to the custom of such manor. The tenant may have the same quantities of interest in this tenure as he may enjoy in freeholds, as an estate in fee-simple or (by particular custom) fee-tail, or for life, and he may have only a chattel interest of an estate for years in it. By the custom of some manors, the estate devol...
Husband and wife
Husband and wife. the Common Law treated them, for most purposes, as one person, giving, with exceptions comparatively unimportant, the whole of a woman's property to her husband for his absolute use, and a husband could not make a grant to his wife at the Common Law, though he might do so: (1) under the Statute of Uses, by granting an estate to another person for her use; (2) by creating a trust in her favour; (3) by the custom of particular places; (4) by surrendering copyholds to her use; and (5) by will.Equity, however, from very early times, by the doctrines of 'separate use,' 'trusts,' and 'equity to a settlement,' very largely modified the Common Law in favour of the wife; and the statute law has, by s. 1 of the Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors Act), 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 30), almost completely abolished the property distinction between an unmarried and a married woman. See MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY.At Common Law, a gift of either realty or personal-ity to a husband a...
Churchwardens
Churchwardens, anciently styled Church Reeves or Ecclesi' Guardiani, the guardians or keepers of the church, and representatives of the body of the parish; but though in some sort ecclesiastical officers, they are always lay persons. They are a quasi corporation for certain purpose, Withnell v. Gartham, (1795) 6 TR 388 (396), and in the City of London they are a corporation for the purpose of holding lands; but beyond that they are only annual officers, Fell v. Official Trustee of Charity Lands, 1898 (2) Ch 59. They are sometimes appointed by the minister, sometimes by the Vestry and Parochial Church Meeting sitting together (see 11 & 12 Geo. 5 No. 1, s. 13), sometimes by the minister and the meeting together, sometimes one by the minister and another by the meeting, as custom directs. Where there is no custom the election must be according to Canon 89 and s. 13 above, under which they must be chosen by the joint consent of the minister and the meeting, and if they cannot agree, then t...
Salvage
Salvage, allowance or compensation made by maritime law to those by whose exertions ships or goods have been saved from the dangers of the seas, fire, pirates, or enemies.This was allowed by the laws of Rhodes, Oleron, and Wisby, and is also allowed by all modern maritime states; the person who saves goods from loss or imminent peril has a lien upon them, and may retain them till payment of salvage. In this, however, the maritime law differs from the Common Law. No doctrine similar to 'salvage' applies to things lost upon land, nor to anything except ships or goods in peril at sea, Falcke v. Scottish Imperial Insurance Co., (1886) 34 Ch D 248, per Bowen, L.J.If the salvage be performed at sea, or on land (Judic. Act, 1925, s. 22), the Court of Admiralty has jurisdiction, and fixes the sum to be paid, adjusts the proportions, and takes care of the property pending the suit; or, if necessary, directs a sale and divides the proceeds between the salvors and the proprietors. In fixing the r...
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