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Tail
Tail [fr. tailler, Fr., to prune]. An estate-tail was formerly a freehold of inheritance and is now an equitable interest which may be created after 1925 in respect of personalty as well as realty by way...
Migration
Migration, embraces two factors: (1) going from one place to another, and (2) the intention to make the destination a place of abode or residence in future; it has the motion of transference of allegiance from...
Westminster
Westminster, a city by express creation of Henry VIII. it was dissolved as a see and restored to the bishopric of London by Edward VI., and turned into a collegiate church, subject to a dean, by...
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Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in...
Heriot
Heriot [supposed by some to be derived fr. here, Sax., an army, and geat, provision, Willis, 194. Coke derives it fr. here, lord, and geat, beste, i.e., the lord's beste, Co. Litt. 185 b], the right...
Procedure established by law
Procedure established by law, does not mean due process of law, A.K. Gopalan v. State of Madras, AIR 1980 SC 27. In India as in UK, the legislature is free to lay down any procedure, within...
Scintilla juris et tituli
Scintilla juris et tituli [Lat.] (a spark of law and title). A possibility of seisin, which was supposed to exist in the grantee to uses, when all actual seisin was taken from him by the operation...
Irish and Scots Courts' Judgments
Irish and Scots Courts' Judgments. As regards Northern Ireland and Scottish judgments, a judg-ment of a Superior Court of Northern Ireland or Scotland is enforceable after registration of a certificate thereof by the High Court of...
National insurance
National insurance. The (English) National Insur-ance Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 55), introduced by Mr. Lloyd George, established a wide system of compulsory state insurance covering both ill-health and unemployment, which is based...
Dog
Dog. Draught.--The (English) Protection of Animals Act, 1911, s. 9, and the (English) Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act, 1912, s. 8, prohibit, under a penalty, the use of any dog in England or Scotland for the...
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