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Roman Catholics
the testator [Re Smith, (1914) 1 Ch 937]. As to whether or not a Roman Catholic may be Lord Chancellor, see the statement of Sir J. Coleridge, A.-G. (afterwards Lord Chief Justice of England), in the House … were passed against Roman Catholics, generally under the name of Papists (see that title), after the Reformation, an Act of Elizabeth, for instance, 13 Eliz. c. 2, punishing with the penalties of a pr'munire (see that title)
Escheat
intestate tenant's family. Escheat to the Crown, the Duchy of Lancaster, the Duke of Cornwall and to mesne lords has been abolished by (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 45(1). The right of the Crown to
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary
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Chancellor, Lord
c. 7, s. 12). He is a cabinet minister, a privy councillor, and prolocutor of the House of Lords by prescription (but not necessarily, though usually, a peer of the realm), and vacates his office with the … appointment and removal of county court judges (see COUNTY COURTS), and [see s. 8 of the (English) Coroners Act, 1887] the power to remove coroners. He is one of the three ex-officio trustees of the British Museum.
County Courts
c. 53), which enacts as follows:' Area.--The area for each court is an fixed by order of the Lord Chancellor from time to time (s. 2). Judges.--The judges, who are appointed by the Lord Chancellor, and may … been established throughout England. They were first established in 1846 by 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95, 'the Act for the more easy recovery of Small Debts and Demands in England,' repealed and re-enacted with fourteen amending
Resignation
living to the bishop, as surrender is the giving up of temporal land into the hands of the lord. The act or an instance of surrendering or relin-quishing an office, right, or claim, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th
Appeal, Court of (U.K.)
(ex officio) the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Master of the Rolls, and five Lords Justices. The Judges may not sit on appeal from judgments to which they themselves were parties. A puisne … Appeal, Court of (U.K.), this Court, which was constituted under the Judicature Act, 1873, the Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876, and the Judicature Act,1881, has, by Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, s. 26,
Money of account, money of measurement money of payment
of their privilege of imposing new taxes upon the subject, that they will not suffer the House of Lords to exert any other power but that of rejection: they will not pass a money-bill introduced in the … not include any taxation, money, or loan raised by local authorities or bodies for local purposes.' [(English) Parliament Act, 1911, s. 1 (2).] With respect to these bills, the House of Commons are so reasonably jealous of
Forfeiture
Apparently, the Land Charges Act, 1922, abolish-ing copyholds, may not having affected the claim to forfeiture by mesne lords under this head, Halsbury, L.E., 2nd Edn., vol. 8, p. 83, n. (4) Disclaimer, which is a tenant's
Sunday
Sunday [fr. sunnan daeg, Sax., the day of the sun], the first day of the week, the Lord's Day, termed in the Sunday Observance Act, 1677 (29 Car. 2, c. 7, infra), 'the Lord's Day, commonly
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