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Bote

of husbandry. The owner of an estate for life or for years is entitled, even if he is impeachable for waste and unless expressly restrained by the terms of the conveyance, settlement, or devise, to reasonable estovers

Dispunishable

Dispunishable, without penal restraint; also, without impeachment for waste, see WASTE

Dilatory pleas

some matter of fact not connected with the merits of the case, but such as might exist without impeaching the right of action itself. They were either pleas to the jurisdiction, showing that, by reason of some

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Client

client, so long as the relation continues, are viewed by the Court with the utmost jealousy, and if impeached the onus of upholding them is thrown on the solicitor; see, as to the general law on this

Certiorari

Consolidation Act, 1845, s. 156; but even such clauses do not apply to cases where a decision is impeached for substantial want of jurisdiction, R. v. Cheltenham Commissioners, (1841) 1 QB 467. (See also Housing Act, 1936,

Black Rod, Gentleman Usher of

golden lion. During the session of Parliament he attends on the peers, and to his custody all peers impeached for any crime or contempt are first committed, Consult May, Parl. Pr.

Articles

and granting of leases, for making settlements on marriage, and for forming partnerships. And see ASSOCIATION. And see IMPEACHMENT.

Ameliorating waste

1892 (2) Ch 253; and see Settled Land Act, 1925, ss. 88 & 89, as to improvements involving impeachment for waste.

Act of Settlement

England as by law established. (ii.) No pardon under the Great Seal of England be pleadable to an impeachment. Ministers were thus prevented from escaping responsibility because the King had pardoned them. (iii.) Judges should hold office

Absque impetitione vasti

Absque impetitione vasti [Lat.] (without impeachment of waste), a reservation frequently made to a tenant for life, that no man shall proceed against him

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