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Inferior Courts (UK)

obtained in inferior courts in England, Scotland, and Ireland res-pectively, effectual in any other part of the United Kingdom; but the working of the Act is very much cramped by the provision of s. 10, that the

Estate duty

death of the tenant for life, Attorney-General v. Beech, 1899 AC 53. Securities physically situate in the United Kingdom and marketable there at the death of a person are liable for estate duty even though the deceased

Incorporated Law Society

Solicitors, Proctors, and others not being Barristers practicing in the Courts of Law and Equity of the United Kingdom'; since the charter of 1903 it has been officially (as before them commonly) called 'The Law Society.' The

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Gaming or gambling

(English) Betting and Lotteries Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 58), and see Elderton v. United Kingdom Totalisator Co., (1935) 1 Ch 373 (as to advertisement of football pool on credit); WAGER; BETTING; and LOTTERY;

Domicile

25 Vict. c. 114), it is enacted among other things that every will made out of the United Kingdom by a British subject (whatever may have been his domicile) shall, as regards personal estate, be held to

Domus conversorum

Jews as were converted to the Christian faith; but King Edward III., who expelled the Jews from this kingdom, deputed the place for the custody of the rolls and records of the Chancery, Tomlin's Law Dict.

Owling

Owling, the offence of transporting wool or sheep out of the kingdom. Abolished by 5 Geo. 4, c. 107.

Exeter, or Exon, Domesday

to the dean and chapter of Exeter Cathedral, which contains a description of the western parts of the kingdom, comprising the counties of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. The Exeter Domesday was published with several other

Foreign Bill of Exchange

INLAND BILL. Before 19 & 20 Vict. c. 97, a bill drawn in one part of the United Kingdom, as England, on a person in another part, as Ireland or Scotland, was deemed a foreign bill; but

Foreign documents

Foreign documents. The admissibility in evidence in the United Kingdom of entries contained in public registers in other countries is governed by the Evidence (Foreign Dominions and Colonial)

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