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Armorial bearings

and all persons entitled to bear arms can register their genealogies and families at the Heralds' College, Benet's Hill, London, on payment of a moderate fee, the heralds being the examiners of these matters and the recorders

Tyburn

Gent. Mag. 1783, pp. 974, 1060; Croker Papers, vol. iii. pp. 15, 16; Boswell's Johnson, Ed. by Birkbeck Hill, vol. iv., p. 188.

Sufficient cause

parte and cannot be stretched to rely upon other circumstances anterior in time, Tea Auction Ltd. v. Grace Hill Tea Industry, AIR 2007 SC 67. Sufficient cause is an expression which is found in various statues. It

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Soc, Sok, Soka

power or privilege to administer justice and execute laws; also a shire, circuit, or territory, See Merttens v. Hill, (1901) 1 Ch 842. See SOKE.

Round-robin

form. For an account of perhaps the most famous round-robin on record, see Boswell's Johnson, Edn. by Birkbeck Hill, vol. iii. p. 82.

Holm

Holm [fr. hulmus, Sax.; insula amnica, Lat.], an isle, or fenny ground; a river island; also a hill or cliff, Co. Litt. 5a.

Right close, Writ of

or in fee tail, or for life, or in dower, Fitz. N.B. 11 F.; and see Merttens v. Hill, (1901) 1 Ch p 853.

Public mischief

what constitutes the offence, see R. v. Munley, (1932) 1 KB 529 (false information to Police), Kerr v. Hill, Duncan v. Jones, (1936) 1 KB 218 (public meeting, apprehension of breach of the peace); and see Public

Polligar, Polygar

Polygar, the head of a village or district; also a military chieftain in the peninsula, answer-ing to a hill zemindar in the northern circars, Indian.

Negligence

for those of a British subject, at all events if the wrong-doer is not a foreigner, Davidson v. Hill, (1901) 2 KB 606. Contributory Negligence of Plaintiff.--If the plaintiff has been guilty of contributory negligence, in other

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