Infant - Law Dictionary Search Results
Owner (Estate Owner)
by s. 205 (1)(ix.), Law of Property Act, 1925, as 'the owner of a legal estate, but an infant is not capable of being an estate owner.' Estate owners for the purposes of the land legislation of
Non-age
Non-age, minority. See INFANT.
Negotiorum gestor
as his bailiff; for it will be presumed that he entered to take them in trust for the infant, See Wall v. Stanwick, (1887) 34 Ch D 763. As the negotiorum gestor interferes without any actual mandate,
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Mutual promises
on one side be only voidable, as in consideration of money given or of a promise by an infant, it is sufficient. Mutual promises, however, to be obligatory, must be made simultaneously. If they be made at
Murder
includes a less, a person indicted for murder may be (and very frequently is) convicted of manslaughter. The Infanticide Act, 1922, provides that a woman who wilfully causes the death of her newly-born child shall be guilty
Marriage, Promise of
Provisions) Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 41), s. 1 (2) (b). A promise by an infant is voidable and cannot be enforced unless renewed by him after he attains his majority, Ditcham v. Worrall,
Meliorem conditionem suam facere potest minor deteriorem nequaqum
deteriorem nequaqum. Co. Litt. 337.-(A minor can make his own condition better, but by no means worse.) see INFANT.
Magna Carta
Charter. It will be only necessary, therefore, to mention their subjects:-Chapter three related to the wardship of an infant heir of an earl, baron, or knight; chapter four prohibited the guardian from wasting the lands of his
Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)
married women's estates subject to a restraint upon anticipation (see SETTLED LAND settled land). (3) Legal estates of infants in fee simple, legal estate not being capable of being held by an infant (see INFANTS). The object
Proposal
upon an application ex parte, or a decretal order of the Court. It is for maintenance of an infant, appointment of a guardian, placing a ward of Court at the university, or in the army, or apprentice
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