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Contingent remainder

Cas. Par. 351, the Court held that, in every case where an estate is given to A. for life, the grantor has an interest remaining in him to enter upon the estate, if it should determine by … remainder for the life of A. On this ground, the limitation (usual in old settlements) to trustees 'for preserving contingent remainders' was held to confer on then a vested estate and not a contingent remainder. The interposition

Preservation

safe the state of being preserved or kept from injury destruction or decay security safety as preservation of life fruit game etc a picture in good preservation … The act or process of preserving or keeping safe the state of being preserved or kept from injury destruction or decay security safety as

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Protector of the settlement

protector, the statutory protector, i.e., the owner of the first (sufficient) estate in possession, e.g., the tenant for life under the same settlement, was and is a statutory protector. The special protector was to be appointed as … the old tenant to the pr'cipe, whose concurrence in barring estates-tail in remainder was required in order to preserve, under certain modifications, the control of the tenant for life over the remainderman. The statutory protector might be

Preserver

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Sessions of the peace

felony which, when committed by a person not previously convicted of felony, is punishable by penal servitude for life, or for: (1) Misprision of treason. (2) Offences against the king's title, or government, etc. (3) Offences subject

Abortion

the discretion of the Court. A person charged under this s. may be convicted under the (English) Infant Life (Preservation) Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo 5, c. 34). By s. 59 of the Act of 1861,

Birth, Concealing

such a finding in the case of the acquittal of a woman upon indictment for infanticide; (English) Infant Life (Preservation) Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 34), s. 2(4), provides similarly upon acquittal upon indictment

Infanticide

and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 1, or child destruction, under (English) Infant Life (Preservation) Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 34)

Caloricity

A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life that is the animal heat … A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life that is the animal heat

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