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Bank, Commercially it is a place where money is deposited for the purpose of being lent out at interest, returned by exchange, disposed of to profit, or to be drawn out again as the owner shall call for it. Special provisions are contained in the (English) Companies Act, 1929 relating to Banks. By s. 358, no company, association or partnership consisting of more than ten members shall be formed for the purpose of carrying on a banking business unless it is registered under the Act or formed in pursuance of an Act of Parliament or of letters patent. By s. 360, the liability of the members of a banking limited company remains unlimited in respect of the bank's liability for bank-notes issued by it. As to signature of balance sheets, see s. 129 and ANNUAL RETURNS, ss. 108 and 361. See also JOINT STOCK BANKS and LIMITED LABILITY, and consult Grant, Paget, or Walker on Banking, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Bank.'Means financial institution engaged in the accepting of deposits of money, granting...
Bracton
Bracton, the author of the Latin treatise entitled De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angli'. He lived at the latter end of the reign of Henry the Third. Bracton's book, compared with that of Glanville, is a voluminous work. It is divided into five books, and these into tracts and chapters. See 2 Reeves' Hist. c. viii. 86, note (a), for an analysis of the several divisions of the chapters and a complete digest of the contents of this venerable code. The rules of property are explained; the proceedings in actions, through the minutest steps, are investigated and developed; while every proposition is supported by fair deduction, or corroborated by the authority of some adjudged case, so that the reader never fails in deriving instruction or amusement from the study of this scientific treatise on our ancient laws and customs. Bracton was deservedly looked up to as the first source of legal knowledge, even down to the time of Sir Edward Coke, who seems to have made this author his guide in all ...
Colonizationist
A friend to colonization esp U S Hist to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States...
Federalist
An advocate of confederation specifically Amer Hist a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington...
Hist
Hush be silent a signal for silence...
Interventor
One who intervenes a mediator especially Eccles Hist a person designated by a church to reconcile parties and unite them in the choice of officers...
Regicide
One who kills or who murders a king specifically Eng Hist one of the judges who condemned Charles I to death...
Abdication
Abdication, where a magistrate or person in office voluntarily renounces or gives it up. It differs from resignation, in that resignation is made by one who has received his office from another and restores it into his hands 'as an inferior into the hands of a superior. On King James II.'s leaving this kingdom, and abdicating the crown, the Lords would have had the word 'desertion' made use of, but the Commons thought it was not comprehensive enough, for that the king might then have liberty of returning, and the Lords ultimately gave way: see Macaulay's Hist. of Eng., ch. X. Involuntary resignations are also termed abdications, as Napoleon's abdication at Fontainebleau. See 1 Edw. 8, c. 4.Is the act of renouncing or abandoning privileges or duties, esp. those connected with high office, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 3....
Almsfeoh or almesfeoh
Almsfeoh or almesfeoh [Sax.], alms-money. It has been taken for Peter-pence, first given to the Pope by Ina, King of the West Saxons, and anciently paid in England on the first of August. It was likewise called romefeoh, romescot, and heorthpening, Selden's Hist. Tithes, 217....
Array, Military Commission of
Array, Military Commission of. Previous to the reign of Henry VIII., in order to protect the kingdom from domestic insurrections or foreign invasions, it was usual from time to time for our princes to issue commissions of array, and send into every county officers in whom they could confide, to muster, array, or set in military order the inhabitants of every district. The form of the commission was settled by 5 Hen. 4, so as to prevent the insertion therein of any new penal clauses, Rushworth, Hist. Coll., vol. Iv., pp. 662, 667....
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