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Trinity house

'charged with the conduction of the Queen's Majesty's Navy Royal, and bound to foresee the good increase and maintenance of ships, and of all kinds of men trained and brought up to watercraft most meet for Her

Trophy money

money, money formerly collected and raised in London, and the several counties of Eng-land, towards providing harness and maintenance for the militia, etc

Under any customary or personal law applicable to parties

her with wherewithal to maintain herself. The whole scheme of s. 127(3)(b) is manifestly to recognise the substitute maintenance arrangement by lump sum payment organised by the custom of the community or the personal law of the

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University autonomy

basis of democracy. Exclusive control of education by the State has been an important factor in facilitating the maintenance of totalitarian tyrannies. In such states institutions of higher learning controlled and managed by gov-ernmental agencies act like

Widow

death of the intestate. A married infant can give a receipt for income. The statutory powers for advancement, maintenance, accumulation of income and hotchpot (q.v.) are to apply and the personal representatives may allow infants to use

Workhouses

Workhouses, municipal institutions for the support and maintenance of poor persons. See (English) Poor Law Act, 1930 (20 Geo. 5, c. 17), ss. 21 to 34;

Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act

Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, s. 10 of the Maintenance of Internal Security Act opens with the words 'save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act'. These words

Rectory

separate or dedicate to God, in any congregation for the service of His Church there, and for the maintenance of the governor or the minister thereof, to whose charge the same is committed, Spelm. Also, the house

Medicine or drug

of diseases in human beings or animals; (iii) all substances intended to be used for or in the maintenance of public health, or the prevention or control of any epidemic disease among human beings or animals; (iv)

Person of unsound mind

a 'receiver,' who manages the patient's affairs under the direction of the Masters in Lunacy. The cost of maintenance in a criminal lunatic asylum is a Crown debt recoverable against the lunatic's estate, In re J., (1909)

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