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red herring

red herring [red herring something that distracts attention from the main issue, diversion] : a preliminary prospectus (as for the sale of securities) that is not yet approved by the appropriate body (as the Securities and Exchange Commission) ...

The form of the objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she as I saw her with her purse out...

Herring

One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea and allied genera esp the common round or English herring Clupea harengus of the North Atlantic Herrings move in vast schools coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America where they are salted and smoked in great quantities...

Pickle herring

A herring preserved in brine a pickled herring...

Against her will

Against her will, the expression 'Against her will' seems to connote that the offending act was done despite resistence and opposition of the women, Deelip Singh v. State of Bihar, (2005) 1 SCC 88 (97). (Indian Penal Code, s. 375 firstly)...

Herring silver

Herring silver was a composition in money for the custom of supplying herrings for the provision of a religious house....

Hers

See the Note under Her pron...

Herrings

Herrings. See SEA FISHERIES ACTS....

Married women's property

Married women's property, At Common Law, a woman, by marrying, transferred the ownership of all her property, real and personal, present and future, to her husband absolutely, so that he might sell, pay his debts out of, give away, or dispose by will of it as he pleased, with these exceptions and modifications:-1) Her freehold estate became his to manage and take the profits of during the joint lives only. After his death, leaving her surviving, it passed to her absolutely; after her death, leaving him surviving, provided that it was an estate in possession and issue who could in her it had been born during the marriage, it passed to him as 'tenant by the curtesy (q.v.) of England,' during his life, and after his death to her heir-at-law.(2) Her leasehold estate, her personal estate in expectancy, and the debts owing to her and other 'choses in action,' became his absolutely if he did some act to appropriate or reduce them into possession during the marriage, or if he survived her. If ...

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...

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