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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...
Justifiable homicide
Justifiable homicide, the killing of a human creature without incurring any legal guilt. It is of various kinds:- (1) The due execution of public justice, inputting a malefactor to death who has forfeited his life by...
Accident to workman
Accident to workman, compensation for. (English) The Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925, provides s. 1, sub-s. (1), that if in any employment personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of the employment is...
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Emphyteusis
Emphyteusis, the jus emphyteuticarium, or as it is more generally called, emphyteusis, was the right of enjoying all the fruits, and disposing at pleasure of the property of another, subject to the payment of a yearly...
Drunkenness
Drunkenness, intoxication with strong liquor; habit-ual inebriety. A contract made by a person when so drunk as to be unable to understand what he is doing is voidable if the person with whom the contract was...
Civil Law
Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law. The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to...
Bishop
Bishop [fr. 'plokopoV, Gk. Biscop, Sax.], an overseer or superintendent. The chief of the clergy in his diocese or jurisdiction in England, Wales, or Ireland, and the archbishop's suffragan or assistant. A bishop is elected by...
Assignment
Assignment, 'assignment' means an assignment in writing by act of the parties concerned. [Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, (37 of 2000), s. 2(b)] 'Assignment' means the transfer of the claim, right or property to another, C.G.T....
Adolescent
Adolescent, means a person who has completed his fourteenth year of age but has not completed his eighteenth year. [Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948), s. 2 (a)] --means a person who has completed his...
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...
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