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Vagrants
convicted of the offence for which he was so apprehended. As to incorrigible rogues, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for any justice to commit such offender (being thereof convicted before him) to the house of correction, there
Merger
Property Act, 1925, s. 185, reproducing the (English) Judicature Act,1873, s. 25 (4), it is provided that there shall not, after the commencement of that Act, be any merger by operation of law only of any estate
Salic, or Salique
nearest relation by the male. (6) No part of the Salic land shall pass to the females, but it shall belong to the males; the male children shall succeed their father, Encyc. Londin.; preferring males but not excluding
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Deposit
not only as a part payment of the purchase money, but also as a guarantee that the contract shall be completed by the purchaser, and may be forfeited if he make default, Howe v. Smith, (1884) 27 Ch … like sum when he shall demand it. There is also a quasi deposit, as where a person comes lawfully to the possession of another person's property by finding it; and a special deposit of money or bills
Power
valid execution of a power of appointment by deed or by any instrument in writing not testamentary, notwithstanding it shall have been expressly required that a deed or instrument in writing made in exercise of such power should
Infant
for goods supplied, or to be supplied (other than contracts for necessaries), and all accounts stated with infants shall be absolutely void; provided always that this enactment shall not invalidate any contract into which an infant may by
Goods
from pay-ment of basis excise duty and additional excise duty subject to conditions which further stipulated that exemption shall be granted only if the 'goods' released from 100% export-oriented units were brought directly in to the factory of
Contingent remainder
s. 8, which enacts 'that a contingent remain-der existing at anytime after the 31st day of December, 1844, shall be, and, if created before the passing of this Act, shall be deemed to have been capable of taking
Sessions of the peace
peace, it may be tried by a Court of quarter sessions, unless there is some special direction that it shall be determined by another Court; and with the above exceptions, the quarter sessions have power to try all indictable
Occupancy
that if no disposition by will be made of an estate pur autre vie of a freehold nature, it shall be chargeable in the hands of the heir or special occupant if it comes to him by reason of … this case, he that entered first on the land was called the occupant or common occupant and might lawfully retain the possession so long as the cestui que vie lived, by right of occupancy, see Re Michell,
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