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Home Dictionary Name: jacob inCharter
Charter [fr. Charta, Lat.; chartre, Fr.], an evidence in writing of things done between man and man. Charters of the Sovereign are written instruments granting certain privileges or exemptions to any person or body politic (Jacob's Law Dict.) (see, e.g., the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 210) or corporations; e.g., to 'chartered' banking or other trading companies [see 7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 73, and (English) Chartered Companies Act, 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. c. 56)], or to a college or university [see (English) College Charter Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 63)], or to a City company, as the Apothecaries Company, whose charter, granted by James I., is cited in the (English) Apothecaries Act, 1815 (55 Geo. 3, c. 194). See LETTERS PATENT. The word also meant deeds and other documents of title belonging to private owners, Jacob's Law Dict....
Guardian
Guardian, means a person having the care of the person of a minor or his property or of both his person and property, and includes:(i) a natural guardian,(ii) a guardian appointed by the will of the minor's father or mother,(iii) a guardian appointed or declared by court, and(iv) a person empowered to act as such by or under any enactment relating to any court of wards;Explanation.--For the purposes of this clause, any name which is not the name of a country, region or locality of that country shall also be considered as the geographical indication if it relates to a specifies geographical area and is used upon or in relation to particular goods originating from that country, region or locality, as the case may be. [Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956 (32 of 1956), s. 4(b)]A guardian is one appointed by the wisdom and policy of the law to take care of a person and his affairs, who by reason of his imbecility and want of understanding is incapable of acting for his own interest (2...
Edomite
One of the descendants of Esau or Edom the brother of Jacob an Idumean...
Hebrew
An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants esp in the line of Jacob an Israelite a Jew...
Israelite
A descendant of Israel or Jacob a Hebrew a Jew...
Jacob
A Hebrew patriarch son of Isaac and ancestor of the Jews who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven Gen xxviii 12 also called Israel...
Polemonium
A genus of gamopetalous perennial herbs including the Jacobs ladder and the Greek valerian...
Shiloh
A word used by Jacob on his deathbed and interpreted variously as ldquothe Messiahrdquo or as the city ldquoShilohrdquo or as ldquoRestrdquo...
Abacot
Abacot, the name of the ancient cap of state worn by the kings of England. It was made in the shape of two crowns, Jacob's Law Dict....
Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923
Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923 (English) (13 & 14 Geo. 5, cc. 9 and 25). By a series of statutes commencing with the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1875, statutory compensation has been provided for an outgoing agricultural tenant in respect of the improvements effected by him during his tenancy. The operation of this Act could be and frequently was excluded by agreement, but now the tenant cannot deprive himself by contract of the right to claim compensation which is conferred on him by the Act, although he may within limits substitute other benefits by agreement. The Act of 1923 (as amended by the Agricultural Holdings Amendment Act, 1923) repeals and consolidates all the earlier statutes dealing with the subject, and confers on outgoing tenants of 'holdings' the rights and benefits briefly outlined below. The term 'holding' means any parcel of land held by a tenant which is wholly agricultural or wholly pastoral, or in whole or in part cultivated as a market garden, and which is not le...
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