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One who petitions by a memorial...
Mnemonics
The art of memory a method for improving the memory a system of precepts and rules intended to assist the memory artificial memory...
Yorkshire Registry Act, 1884
Yorkshire Registry Act, 1884 (English) (47 & 48 Vict. c. 54), consolidating and amending the Acts relating to the registration of deeds, wills, and other assurances (see the wide meaning of the term in s. 3 of the Act of 1884) in the North (8 Geo. 2, c. 6), East (6 Anne, c. 2), and West (2 & 3 Anne, c. 4, and 6 Anne, c. 20) Ridings of the County of York, for the purpose of giving them priority according to the date of registration irrespectively of notice aliunde (s. 14) (see NOTICE); and Battison v. Hobson, (1896) 2 Ch 403; Gresham Assurance Society v. Crowther, (1915) 1 Ch 214.By the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 11:(1) It shall not be necessary to register a memorial of any instrument made after the commencement of this Act in any local deeds registry unless the instrument operates to transfer or create a legal estate or to create a charge thereon by way of legal mortgage; nor shall registration of a memorial of any instrument not required to be registered affect any prior...
past recollection recorded
past recollection recorded : a witness's written account of a past event prepared at a time when his or her memory of it was fresh ;also : an exception to the hearsay rule allowing admission of such an account into evidence if the witness has insufficient present memory of the event or has no memory of having recorded it but is confident that the account is accurate compare present recollection refreshed NOTE: A document containing a past recollection recorded may only be admitted as an exhibit if offered by an adverse party. Otherwise, it may only be read into evidence. ...
Memento
A hint suggestion token or memorial to awaken memory that which reminds or recalls to memory a souvenir...
Easement
Easement, An easement is a right which the owner or occupier of certain land possesses, a such, for the beneficial enjoyment of that land, to do and continue to do something, or to prevent and continue to prevent something being done, in or upon, or in respect of, certain other land not his own. [Easement Act, 1882 (5 of 1882), s. 4]Easement, a privilege without profit which the owner of one neighbouring tenement hath of another, existing in respect of their several tenements, by which the owner of the one (called the servient) tenement is obliged to suffer, or not to do something on his own land, for the advantage of the owner of the other (called the dominant) tenement, e.g., a right of way, a right of passage of water. It is the servitus of the Civil Law. An easement being a mere right without profit must be distinguished from a profit a prendre (q.v.), which confers a right to take something from the servient tenement. Instances of easements are rights of way, light, support, or fl...
Record
Record, a memorial or remembrance; an authentic testimony in writing contained in rolls of parchment, and preserved in a Court of record. The public records of the kingdom are placed under the superintendence of the Master of the Rolls, and a Record Office established by the (English) Public Record Office Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 94). The (English) Public Record Office (commonly called the Rolls Office) is a large building in Chancery Lane, London, and was opened in 1902.There are three kinds of records, viz.: (1) judicial, as an attainder; (2) ministerial, on oath, being an office or inquisition found; (3) by way of conveyance, as a deed enrolled. As to ancient public records generally, see Hubback on Succession, pp. 607 et seq.The Record Offices of the Supreme Court are now merged in the Central Office there. See (English) R.S.C. Ord. LXI.Also the general name given to (a) pleadings and subsequent orders and recorded matters in an action (by R. S. C. 1883, Ord. XXXVI. R. 30, the par...
Custom
Custom [fr. Costume, It.; coustume, coutume, Fr.; costumbre, Sp.; consuetudo, Lat.], 'Custom maybe defined to be a law or right not written which being established by long use and consent of our ancestors has been and daily is put in practice' (Les Termes de la Ley). In Lockwood v. Wood, 6 QB 50, Tindal C.J., at p. 64 says that it is 'in effect , the Common Law within that place to which it extends although contrary to the General Law of the realm.' If it be universal, it is Common Law; if particular, it is then properly custom. The requisites to make a particular custom good are these: (1) It must have been used so long that the memory of man runs not to the contrary; (2) it must have been continued and (3) peaceable; also (4) reasonable and (5) certain; (6) compulsory, and not left to the option of every person, whether he will use it or not; and (7) consistent with other customs, for one custom cannot be setup in opposition to another; see 1 Bl. Com. 76. Customs are of different kin...
Time
Time. before 1751 the legal year in England began on the 25th March, therein differing from the common usage in the whole kingdom, and the legal method in Scotland. In 1751 the Gregorian, or present, calendar was substituted for the Julian Calendar by 24 Geo. 2, c. 23.1. A measure of duration 2. A point in or period of duration at or during which something is alleged to have occurred 3. Slang. A convicted criminal's period of incarceration, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Time in Acts of Parliament (see, e.g., the definition of night in the Larceny Act) and legal instruments means, in Great Britain, Greenwich mean time, and in Ireland, Dublin mean time, by virtue of the Statute (Definition of Times) Act, 1880 (43 & 44 Vict. c. 9). See, however, Gordon v. Cann, (1899) 68 LJQB 434. The effect of the Summer Time Act, 1922, continued annually, should be noted. The time for Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man is one hour in advance of Greenwich time dur...
Immemorial usage
Immemorial usage, a practice which has existed time out of mind; custom; prescription, See MEMORY, TIME OF LEGAL.A phenomenon is said to be happening from time immemorial when the date of its commencement is not within the memory of man or the date of its commencement is shrouded in the mists of antiquity, Patneedi Rudrayya v. Velugubantla Venkayya, AIR 1961 SC 1821 (1823): (1962) 1 SCR 836. [Easements Act, (5 of 1882), s. 18]...
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