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Perpetuity
Tem Talb 228 (1736)], and twenty-one years from the death of the surviving life, without reference to the infancy of any person who is to take under the limitations, or of any other person, allowance for gestation
Merits, affidavit of
strictly moral and conscientious defences; and defences of the Statute of Frauds or Limitations, and of Bankruptcy and Infancy, are defences on the merits, 2 Chit. Arch. Prac.
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
persons who, at the time their right to recover land, etc., first accrues, are under the disability of infancy, coverture, idiotcy, lunacy, or unsoundness of mind, are allowed six years from the termination of their disability, and
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Infant Settlements Act, 1855
settlement or contract for a settlement of property. The Act gets rid entirely of the disability arising from infancy, though not of disability on any other ground, Seaton v. Seaton, (1888) 13 App Cas 61. Consult Seton
Disability
acts by statutory bodies or corporations in excess of their statutory powers, see ULTRA VIRES; (2) partial, as infancy, coverture, lunacy, and drunkenness. As to which, see the various titles relating thereto. The compulsory purchase, by railway
Guardian
who has legal authority and duty to care for another's person or property esp. because of the others infancy, incapacity or disability, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.
Funds, public
defray a part of the war expenditure began, with us, in the reign of William III. In the infancy of the practice it was customary to borrow upon the security of some tax, or portion of a
Friendly societies
subscription for the relief and maintenance of the members or their wives, children, relations, and nominees, in sickness, infancy, advanced age, widowhood, etc. by the Friendly Societies Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 60), various prior
Appropriation, powers of
share is settled), or of his parent, guardian, committee or receiver if he is under incapacity owing to infancy or otherwise. No other consents are required and provision is made for dispensing with any consent. Any property
Abnormal law
Abnormal law, means the law as it applies to persons who are under legal disabilities such as infancy, alienage, insanity, criminality and converture, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 5.
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