Italicism - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: italicismItalicize
To print in Italic characters to underline written letters or words with a single line as to Italicize a word Italicizes too much...
Italianism
A word phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italians an Italicism...
Italicism
A phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italian language to Italianism...
Criminal Procedure Act, 1885 (English)
Criminal Procedure Act, 1885 (English) (28 & 29 Vict. c. 18), sometimes called 'Mr. Denman's Act' (Chit. Stat. Tit. 'Evidence': Statutes Revised); an Act, as the Preamble states, assimilating thelaw of evidence and practice on trials for felony and misdemeanour, and other proceedings in courts of criminal judicature, to that on trials at nisi prius, and enacting bys. 1 that-The provisions of s. two of this Act shall apply to every trial for felony or misdemeanor . . . and that the provisions of ss. from 3 to 8 inclusive of this act shall apply to all Courts of Judicature as well criminal as all others, and to all pesons having, by law or by consent of parties, authority to hear, receive,and examine evidence.The italicized words of the above enactment give the Act a great and general importance, especially because ss. 22-27 of the (English) Common Law Procedure Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 125), have been repealed by the (English) Statute Law Revision Act, 1892, as beng substantially ide...
Distribution, Statute of
Distribution, Statute of (22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 10), now only applied to intestacies prior to 1926, repealed by (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925 (see WIDOW), explained by the Statute of Frauds, 29 Car. 2, c. 3, enacts that the surplusage of intestates' personal estate (except of femes covert, the administration and enjoyment of whose estates belonged, at Common Law, to their husbands-but see MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY) shall, after the expiration of one year from the death of the intestate, be distributed in the following manner: one-third shall go to the widow of the intestate, and the residue in equal proportions to his children, or, if dead, to their representatives, that is, their lineal descendants; if there be no children or legal representative subsisting ,then a moiety shall go to the widow, and a moiety to the next of kindred in equal degree, and their representatives; if no widow, the whole shall go to the children; if neither widow nor children, the whole shall be di...
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