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Graveyard

is permitted to be buried in a graveyard and this practice grows so that it is proved by instances adequate in character, number and extent, then the presumption will be that the dedication is complete and the

From, 'To'

period. This is intended to obviate the difficulties or inconvenience they may be caused to some parties. For instance, if a policy of insurance has to be good for one day from the 1st January, it might

Imperfect obligations

Imperfect obligations, moral duties, such as charity, gratitude, etc., which cannot be enforced by law. For an instance of payment of a debt of honour out of a lunatic's estate under very special circum-stances, see Re

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House of Lords

restored. In difficult cases the House of Lords may obtain the opinions of the judges; for a recent instance of this, see Allen v. Flood, 1898 AC 1. As to the trial of peers indicted for treason

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

it also extends its influence to remove every unlawful restraint of personal freedom in private life, availing, for instance, to restore children to the lawful custody of their father, unless he is leading a vicious life [see

Exterritoriality

of the state in which a person resides and therefore not amenable to its laws. The most marked instance is that of an ambassador. See Oxf. Dict.; Dicey's Conflict of Laws; Westlake's International Law.

Fraudulent conveyances, Statutes against

conveyance of property made either or before 1925 with intent to defraud creditors shall be voidable at the instance of any person thereby prejudiced, but the s. does not affect disentailing assurances or the law of bankruptcy,

Forcible entry

Clerk and Lindsell on Torts, 7th Edn. pp. 328-331. See DISTRESS. At common law, the act or an instance of violently and unlawfully taking possession of laws and tenants against the will of those entitled to possession,

False Verdict

setting aside verdicts and granting new trials, however, so superseded the use of attains that there is no instance of one to be found in our books of reports later than in the time of Elizabeth, and

Exempli gratia

Exempli gratia [abbrev. Ex. gr., or e.g., Lat.], for the purpose of example, or for instance.

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