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District Parishes
parishes for all purposes of worship, and for celebration of marriage, baptisms, churchings, and burials formed at the instance of the Royal Commissioners for Building New Churches, and regulated by the (English) New Parishes Acts, 1843 and
Drunkenness
one. But while the Act of 1879 applied only to persons voluntarily submitting themselves thereto in the first instance, the Act of 1898 is compulsory in certain cases, authorizing the Court to order the detention in an
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Manager
a superintendent, a conductor, or director. As to the appointment of a manager of a business at the instance of a mortgagee, see Coote on Mortgages. As to managers appointed by debenture holders, see (English) Companies Act,
Penal statute
the Crown and the other part to the informer, a popular or qui tam (q.v.) action. For an instance of a recent action for penalties, see Forbes v. Samuel, (1913) 3 KB 706.
Melius inquirendum, ad
lands or tenements a man died seised, on finding an office for the king, Fitz. N.B. 255. For instance of a second inquiry before a coroner, see Reg. v. Carter (1876) 45 LJQB 711; and for express
Surrender of copyholds
as Common Law conveyances. An equitable interest in copyholds was not the subject of surrender, except in the instance of a surrender for the purpose of barring an entail, but it was assignable. The assignee of an
Restitutio in integrum
had sustained injury by the transaction. There were, however, cases in which minores could obtain no restitutio; for instance, when a minor with a fradulent design gave himself out to be a major, when he confirmed the
Roman Catholics
Catholics, generally under the name of Papists (see that title), after the Reformation, an Act of Elizabeth, for instance, 13 Eliz. c. 2, punishing with the penalties of a pr'munire (see that title) any person bringing into
Sacrilege
was for a long time capital, the last execution having taken place in 1819. The act or an instance of desecrating or profaning a sacred thing, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1336.
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