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Goods

kinds of movable property other than actionable claims newspapers, stocks, shares, securities or Government stamps and includes all materials, articles and commodities whether or not to be used in the construction, fitting out, improve-ment or repair of … a book, it becomes a good. That a computer program may be copyrightable as intellectual property does not alter the fact that once in the form of a floppy disc or other medium, the program is tangible,

Petition

Act, are commenced by petition. As to election petitions, see that title. Petition means a written statement of material facts, requesting the Court to grant the relief or remedy based on those facts. It is a peculiar … than twenty names should be signed to a petition to the Crown or either House of Parliament for alteration of matters in Church or State, without the previous approval of the contents by three justices or the

Magna Carta

England, for the purpose of fixing the Great Charter as the broad basis of our legislation, and the material guarantee of the freedom of political opinion, and of vindicating the right of publicly discussing and scrutinizing the … Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter

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Copyhold

Vict. c. 51), afterwards amended by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 94 (the Act of 1858), and more materially by the Act of 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 73), provided for compulsory enfranchisement by either lord … law, unless the custom be otherwise, in which case custom must prevail. Subject to any such custom, the alterations effected by the (English) Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106), are applicable to the

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