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Estate
2. Bl. Com. cc. vii.-xii. According to article 31-A(2)-- (a) the expression 'estate' shall, in relation to any local area, have the same meaning as that expression or its local equivalent has in the existing law relating … in frank-marriage. (B) Freeholds not of inheritance, sub-divided into-- (a) Conventional, or created by the act of the parties; they are (a) estates for one's own life, (b) estates pur autre vie, (c) general grant, without expressing
authority
: a person in a position of power and esp. a public office usually used in pl. [the local authorities] 4 a : a government agency or corporation that administers a revenue-producing public enterprise [the transit ] … has been granted apparent authority : the authority that a principal purposely or through negligence allows a third party to believe that the principal's agent has although such authority has not in reality been granted called also
Custom
custom is a particular rule which has obtained either actually or presumptively from time immemorial in a particular locality and obtained the force of law in the locality, although contrary to, or not consistent with the general … invariable certain and general usage or custom of any particular tradeor place, the law will imply that a party contacting upon a matter to which the same has reference intended to import such usage or custom into
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Further advance, or charge
imputed to the mortgagee by the registration of the subsequent charge as a land charge or in a local deeds registry if it was not so registered at the date of the first advance or when the … security, Equity considers the arrears of interest on a mortgagee security converted into principal, by agreement between the parties, as a further advance. Although the tacking of a third or subsequent mortgage has been abolished by the
Weights and measures
and Measures Act, 1904, substitutes for the power of the Board of Trade to disapprove of regulations of local authorities an initiative power to that Board to make regulations as to verification and stamping of weights and … of any weight, measure, scale, balance, steelyard or weighing machine, the person committing such fraud, and every person party to the fraud, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 5l., or in the case of a
Boundaries
Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50). See s. 250 (2) (Now repealed), see infra. The Local Government Boundaries Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 61), constituted a Commission to inquire into the best … rebutted. Simple fences or ditches and walls frequently belong to the owners of both properties in common, see PARTY WALL. Physical boundaries may also be roads or non-tidal streams, see Ad medium fil', or the sea or
Libel
public meeting, Standen v. South Essex Recorders Ltd., (1934) 50 TLR 365 (comments in newspaper on proceedings at local authority meeting). Proof of malice or spite will rebut a defence of privileged occasion, but neither want of … the author and the publisher of a libel are liable to be either sued or indicted by the party libelled; but it is a defence in either case that the matter complained of was written or printed
Exchange, Deed of
20, S.L. Act, 1925), to make an exchange of settled land for other land. As to power of local authorities to exchange lands for statutory purposes, see, e.g., Housing Act, 1936. … of the other. It takes place between two distinct contracting parties only, although several persons may compose each party. The operative and indispensable verb was 'exchange,' which no longer implies a general warranty or right of re-entry
agency
either directly or by authorizing the executive to set it up. Agencies exist at the federal, state, and local level. Most federal agencies are attached to the executive branch of government. Some agencies (such as the Environmental … "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."] 2 a : a consensual fiduciary relationship in which one party acts on behalf of and under the control of another in dealing with third parties ;also : the
Interest
see, e.g., Law Times newspaper of June 30, 1906, at p. 222. The Companies, the Railways [see Wakefield Local Board v. West Riding and Grimsby Ry. Co., (1865) LR 1 QB 84], and the (English) Lands Clauses … for the principal or sum lent, at a certain rate or allowance made by law, or agreement of parties. (b) Compound interest is when the arrears of interest of one year are added to the principal and
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