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Lords' Act

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Brougham's (Lord) Acts (English)

Brougham's (Lord) Acts (English). The best known of them are the Beer Act of 1830 (11 Geo. 4, 8 1 Wm.

Campbell's (Lord) Acts (English)

Campbell's (Lord) Acts (English)-(1) for amending the practice in prosecutions for libel (see that title), 6 & 7 Vict. c. 96

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Lord Campbell's Act

Lord Campbell's Act [after Baron John Campbell (1779-1861), Scottish-born British jurist who played an instrumental role in the passage

Denman's (Lord) Act

Denman's (Lord) Act (amending the law of evidence (6 & 7 Vict. c. 85 (the Evidence Act, 1843) provides that no

Lyndhurst's (Lord) Act

Lyndhurst's (Lord) Act (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 54) rendered marriages within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity absolutely

Lords, House of

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Belord

To act the lord over

Copyhold

the commutation and enfran-chisement by the establishment of the 'Copyhold Commissioners' as a tribunal to determine differences between lords and tenants. The (English) Act of 1852 (15 & 16 Vict. c. 51), afterwards amended by 21 &

Marriage

marriage in England as regards dower, heirship, and bigamy, is so doubtful that in 1843 the House of Lords and the Court appealed from were equally divided on the point in Reg. v. Millis, (1844) 10 Cl&F … semper pr'sumitur pro negante applied, and 'judgment was given for the defendant in error.' In 1753 Lord Hardwicke's Act (26 Geo. 2, c. 33), passed to prevent clandestine marriages, required, under pain of nullity, that banns should

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