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Derivative settlement
Derivative settlement, in Poor Law that settlement (see SETTLEMENT) which a poor person may acquire from his parent's settlement. The (English) Poor Law Act, 1930 (20 Geo. 5, c. 17), s. 85, enacts:- (1) Until a...
Cost-book mining companies
Cost-book mining companies. The statutory regulations relating to these Companies are contained in the Stannaries Acts, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 19) and 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 43), and the Companies Act, 1929....
Bonded labour system
Bonded labour system, means the system of forced, or partly forced, labour under which a debtor enters, or has, or is presumed to have, entered, into an agreement with the creditor to the effect than,- (i)...
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Attornment
Attornment [fr. tourner, Fr., to turn], the acknowledgement of a new lord on the alienation of land, and the assent or agreement of the tenant to attorn, as 'I become tenant to the purchaser.'-Co. Litt. 309....
Measure of damage
Measure of damage, the test which determines the amount of damages to the given. The general rule in English law is that in contract the measure of damage is the actual loss to the plaintiff, and...
Presentation
Presentation, the offering by the patron of a benefice to the ordinary of a person to be instituted to the benefice. It must be in writing (29 Car. 2, c. 3), and is in the nature...
Manumission
Manumission, the act of giving freedom to slaves. Among the Romans it was performed in three several ways: 1st, when with his master's consent a slave had his name entered in the census or public register...
Official duty
Official duty, implies that the act or omission must have been done by the public servant in the course of his service and that it should have been in discharge of his duty, B. Saha v....
Ordination
Ordination, the conferring of holy orders. The first thing necessary on application for only orders is the possession of a title--that is, a sort of assurance from a rector to the bishop that, provided the latter...
Owner
Owner, for the purposes of the Public Health Act, 1936, s. 343, replacing s. 4 of the Public Health Act, 1875, the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, and the London Building Acts (Amendment) Act (5 Edw....
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