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Marginal note, an abstract of a reported case, a summary of the facts, or brief statement of the principle decided, which is prefixed to the report of the case, usually in the earlier reports placed in the margin, and corresponding to the head-notes of later times and the present day 'marginal notes are often conveniently appended to documents of any kind.The marginal notes which appear in the statute-books as printed by the King's Printers have not the authority of the legislature, and cannot alter the interpretation of the text. See Claydon v. Green, (1868) LR 3 CP 5, per Willes, J.; Sutton v. Sutton, (1882) 22 Ch D 5, per Jessel, M.R. In the Revised Statutes they have been revised throughout to make them in accordance with the text; and in Chitty's Statutes of Practical Utility they have been much added to, abridged, or altered.In some private Acts of Parliament the marginal notes may form part of the Act, Re Working, etc., Act, 1911 (1914) 1 Ch 300, per Phillimore, LJ....
Offence
Offence, crime; act of wickedness. It is used as a genus, comprehending every crime and misde-meanour, or as a species, signifying a crime not indictable, but punishable summarily, or by the forfeiture of a penalty.There are certain acts which are heinous sins and odious in the public eye and are punishable in the Ecclesiastical Courts, but not being punishable at Common Law, and the proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Courts being held to be prosalute anim' and not to entail any temporal injury, they cannot be classed with ordinary Common Law and statutory offences; and it is no slander to impute them unless special damage follows.Other offences are divided into three classes, viz.:-(1) Treasons; (2) Felonies; and (3) Misdemeanours. See several titles.Consult Russell on Crimes; Archbolds' or Roscoe's Criminal Evidence.It means any act or omission made punishable by any law for the time being in force and includes any act in respect of which a complaint may be made under s. 20 of the Cat...
Postil
Originally an explanatory note in the margin of the Bible so called because written after the text hence a marginal note a comment...
Postiler
One who writers marginal notes one who illustrates the text of a book by notes in the margin...
VerbarMarginalia
Marginal notes...
Postillate
To explain by marginal notes to postil...
Gilbert Acts (English)
Gilbert Acts (English) , the Clergy Residences Repair Act, 1776 (17 Geo. 3, c. 53), introduced into Parliament by Mr. Davies Gilbert, providing for the building and repairing of parsonages, with the amending Acts 21 Geo. 3, c. 66, 7 Geo. 4, c. 66, 1 & 2 Vict. c. 23, and 28 & 29 Vict. c. 69, described as the Gilbert Acts in the marginal note of s. 64 of the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Act, 1871. Mr. Gilbert also introduced 22 Geo. 3, c. 83, first establishing unions of parishes with guardians of the poor, superseded by the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, and repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act, 1871....
Paragraph
Originally a marginal mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text e g a change of subject now the character para commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote or to indicate the place of a division into sections...
Digest
Digest, generally a compilation or distribution of a subject into various classes or departments; particularly the Pandects of Justinian in fifty books, containing the opinions and writings of eminent lawyers, digested in a systematical method. (See PANDECTS.) An ordered collection of legal principles, as Mr. Justice Stephen's Digest of the Criminal Law. Also an arrangement of the results (usually transcribed from the marginal or head notes of the reporters) of the decisions of the courts upon litigated points of law, as Fisher's Common Law Digest, Mews's Digest of English Case Law, the Law Reports Digest, the Law Journal Quinquennial Digest, English and Empire Digest, etc....
Palmcrist
The palma Christi Jonah iv 6 margin and Douay version note...
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