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Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

to time hold or have held 'High Judicial Office,' i.e., judges of the Supreme Courts of England or Ireland, Court of Session in Scotland, and not more than seven judges of the superior courts of the self-governing

Oil in Navigable Waters Act, 1922 (English)

5, c. 39). An Act directed against the fouling of the territorial waters of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the waters of harbours therein, by the discharge of oil or spirit, especially crude fuel oil, petroleum,

Nullum tempus aut locus occurit regi

7, c. 28), placing a limitation of sixty years on the recovery of quit rents, etc., payable in Ireland; and see Carson's Real Property Statutes (Notes to the Real Property Limitation Acts, etc.).

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Incorporated Law Society

of the Laws of England. Every person who is or has been a practicing solicitor in England or Ireland, or a writer to the signet, or writer in Scotland, is qualified to become a member of the

Judgments Extension Act, 1868

the Judicature Act, 1925, s. 224) the judgments of the superior Courts of either England, Scotland, or Northern Ireland may be enforced as judgments in either of the other two countries upon registration (in a prescribed manner)

Hereditary revenues

of 1837 directed the produce of all the heritous rates, duties, payments, and revenues in England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively, and also the small branches of the hereditary revenues and the produce of the hereditary casual revenues

Paper Money

10s., payable only at the head office in London but to be legal tender in Scotland and Northern Ireland for any amount, as the 1914 currency notes are to be deemed bank notes.

Fraudulent debtors

Fraudulent debtors. Punishable by the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914, Pt. VII., ss. 154 et seq., and in Ireland by 35 & 36 Vict. c. 57.

Gauge of Railways

fixed, with some exceptions, at 4 feet 8' inches in Great Britain, and 5 feet 3 inches in Ireland, by 9 & 10 Vict. c. 57.

Governor

be His Majesty's representative [Government of India Act, 1936 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 42)]. In Northern Ireland, the 'Governor.' Interpretation Act, 1889, ss. 18 and 42, provides that in all Acts passed after that year

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