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Occupancy

Property arising from confusion. See CONFU-SION, PROPERTY BY. As to title by occupancy of States to territory, see Hall, Int. Law, Ch. II., and generally see 2 Bl. Com., pp. 258, 400, and POSSESSION

Oblations

Church, fees payable to the clergy for marrying, burying, and by way of 'Easter offerings.' See Reg. v. Hall, (1866) LR 1 QB 632. (Those things are called oblations which are offered to God and the Church

Notice

the limits of a local deed registry do not come within this rule, and see also DEARLE v. HALL; LAND CHARGES; REGISTRATION OF LAND; PRIORI-TIES; MORTGAGE. See also PUBLIC NOTICE. Notice does not necessarily mean 'communication in

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Murdrum

was liable, 4 Bl.Com. 195. As to the rates of compensation for murder amongst the Anglo-Saxons, see 2 Hall. Mid. Ages, 133.

Murder

124. A murderer is absolutely disqualified from deriving any benefit under the will of his victim: see Re Hall, 1914, P. 1, and cases there referred to. One of the reasons given by the Courts in number

Mortgage

a valid lease could only be granted with the concurrence of both mortgagor and mortgagee, see Keech v. Hall, (1745) 1 Doug 21; 2 Sm. L.C. In West Bromwich Building Society v. Bullock, 80 SJ 654, it

Misdemeanour

attempted be so by statute or Common Law (Arch. Cr.Pl., 2); any disobedience of a statute, Reg. v. Hall, (1891) 1 QB 747; any incitement of another to commit a felony where no such felony is actually

Lottery

see Taylor v. Smetten, (1883) 11 QBD 207; and see also Willis v. Young, (1907) 1 KB 448; Hall v. Cx, (1899) 1 QB 198; Bartlett v. Parker, (1912) 2 KB 497. By the (English) Betting and

Maxim

in a lecture by Mr. H.F. Manistry, K.C., on 'The Use of Legal Maxims,' delivered in Gray's Inn Hall to the Solicitors' Managing Clerks' Association in January, 1905: see Law Times Newsp. For January 14, 1905. Consult

London Commissioners to administer oaths

(repealed by the Commissioners for Oaths Act, 1889), persons practising as solicitors, within ten miles from Lincoln's Inn Hall, at their respective places of business were from time to time appointed by the Lord Chancellor to administer

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