Jolly - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: jollyJolly
To cause to be jolly to make good natured to encourage to feel pleasant or cheerful often implying an insincere or bantering spirit hence to poke fun at...
Exhilarate
To make merry or jolly to enliven to animate to gladden greatly to cheer as good news exhilarates the mind wine exhilarates a man...
Jolif
Joyful merry pleasant jolly...
Jollily
In a jolly manner...
Jolliness
Jollity noisy mirth...
Jolly boat
A boat of medium size belonging to a ship...
Lark
A frolic a jolly time...
Merrymaking
Making or producing mirth convivial jolly...
Roger
A black flag with white skull and crossbones formerly used by pirates called also Jolly Roger and pirate flag...
Husband and wife
Husband and wife. the Common Law treated them, for most purposes, as one person, giving, with exceptions comparatively unimportant, the whole of a woman's property to her husband for his absolute use, and a husband could not make a grant to his wife at the Common Law, though he might do so: (1) under the Statute of Uses, by granting an estate to another person for her use; (2) by creating a trust in her favour; (3) by the custom of particular places; (4) by surrendering copyholds to her use; and (5) by will.Equity, however, from very early times, by the doctrines of 'separate use,' 'trusts,' and 'equity to a settlement,' very largely modified the Common Law in favour of the wife; and the statute law has, by s. 1 of the Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors Act), 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 30), almost completely abolished the property distinction between an unmarried and a married woman. See MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY.At Common Law, a gift of either realty or personal-ity to a husband a...
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