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Prerogative of mercy
sentence of death by hanging for felony into one of decapitation: cf. Advice given by the judge to James II. in Lady Lisle's case, 11 How St Tr 297 (378). In the eighteenth century conditional pardons for … respon-sibility, e.g., persons who had committed homicide by misadventure or in self-defence (Pollock and Maitland's Hist. Engl. Law, vol. ii., pp. 476 et seq.), but was even extended to jurors who had been attained for an oath
Knights of the Thistle
instituted by Achaius, King of Scotland, A.D. 819. The better opinion, however, is that it was instituted by James V. in 1534, was revived by James VII. (James II. of England) in 1687, and re-established by Queen Anne
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Discovery
of complaint, filed by the opposite party, called a bill of discovery, which was an original bill. Sir James Wigram, V.C., in his work, entitled Points in the Law of Discovery, epitomized the two cardinal principles on
Modesty
and in relation to a woman, 'womanly propriety of behaviour; scrupulous chastity of thought, speech and conduct, R.V. James Lloyd, (1836) 7 C&P 317: 173 ER 141. Modesty, is to be interpreted as an attribute associated with
Ballot
QBD 739, though entire absence renders the presiding officer liable to an action for election lost, Pickering v. James, (1873) LR 8 CP 489. The system thus introduced into Parliamentary and Municipal Elections was applied to School
County Courts
only if the judge grant leave to appeal, unless there is a claim for an injunction, Bourne v. James, (1898) 1 QB 417. The bringing of unimportant actions in the High Court rather thanin a County Court
Usual Covenants
not 'usual,' but a proviso for re-entry on breach of the covenant to pay rent is: see per James, LJ, in Hodgkinson v. Crowe, (1875) LR 10 Ch 622; Re Anderton, (1890) 45 Ch D 476. Usual
Re-entry
greatest eminence as 'a most odious stipulation', Hodgkinson v. Crowe, (1875) LR 10 Ch 626, per Sir Wm. James, L.J., but in practice is certainly common enough. A proviso confined to the case of non-payment of rent
Abjuration
every person entering upon any public office or trust. By this he renounced the Pretender (the son of James II.) and recognized the right of Her Majesty, under the Act of Settlement (q.v.), engaging to support her,
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