Kirk - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: kirkKirk-note or Kirk-mote
Kirk-note or Kirk-mote, a meeting of parishioners on Church affairs....
Kirk
Kirk [fr. cyrce, Sax.; kupiakn, Gk.], a church....
Kirk-officer
Kirk-officer, the beadle of a church in Scotland....
Kirk-session
Kirk-session, a parochial Church Court in Scotland, consisting of the ministers and elders of each parish....
Kirk
A church or the church in the various senses of the word esp the Church of Scotland as distinguished from other reformed churches or from the Roman Catholic Church...
Kirked
Turned upward bent...
Parliamentary exposition
Parliamentary exposition, means the legislature sets out, in a later Act or Statute, the exposition of an earlier Act or, it does so by implication by giving a definite meaning to the same expression which was unexplained in earlier Act, Buttersby v. Kirk, (1836) Bing NC 584; Odgers Constriction of Deeds and Statutes, 1967, p. 345....
Reduction ex capite lecti
Reduction ex capite lecti. By the law of Scotland the heir in heritage was entitled to reduce all voluntary deeds granted to his prejudice by his predecessor within sixty days preceding the predecessor's death; provided the maker of the deed, at its date, was labouring under the disease of which he died, and did not subsequently go to kirk or market unsupported, Bell's Scots Law Dict. But such reductions have now been abolished by the Reduction ex capite lecti, Abolition Act, 1871 (34 & 35Vict. c. 81)....
Use and occupation, Action for
Use and occupation, Action for, an action for dam-ages upon the case for breach of an implied agreement to pay for the use of a landlord's property under the Distress for Rent Act, 1737 (11 Geo. 2, c. 19), s. 14, whereby it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the landlord, where the agreement is not by deed, to recover a reasonable satisfaction for the lands, tenements, or hereditaments held or occupied by the defendant in an action on the case, for the use or occupation of what was so held or enjoyed; and if in evidence on the trial of such action any parole demise, or any agreement (not being by deed) whereon a certain rent was reserved, shall appear, the plaintiff in such action shall not therefore be non-suited, but may make use thereof as an evidence of the quantum of the damages to be recovered. Apparently, the action is not for damages ex delictu, because the action is not maintainable against a trespasser or wrong-doer, an action for debt on the demise but not upon covenant ...
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