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Law Reports
the Bar and published on their responsibility may be cited in argument. For abbreviations, see tables in, e.g., Mews's Digest. The Scottish reports (civil cases) from 1907 onwards are known as 'Session Cases' and are published annually.
Interpretation Clause
are used for the purposes of the Act. Interpretation clauses have been much complained of by judges: see Mews's Digest, tit. 'Statute,' p. 1886; but they make an Act, by shortening, much easier to read, and indeed
Digest
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,
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Certiorari
of Court alone. For the very numerous cases in which the writ has been granted or refused, see Mews's Digest, tit. 'Crown Office (Certiorari)' and for a review of the authorities as to procedure on certiorari, see
Abridgment, or Digests of the Law
Rolle's Abridgments, and Comyn's Digest. Besides these there are Viner's and Bacon's Abridgments, and Harrison's, Chitty's, Fisher's, and Mews' Digests, of later date; and the English and Empire Digest; also the Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England;
Fitzherbert
Fitzherbert, the most distinguished writer upon law in the reign of Henry VIII. He was first a serjeant, and some years after a judge, of the Common Pleas. The first book published by this learned author...
Preamble
Preamble, in the British Parliament, a Preamble is not often incorporated now in a public Bill, however, it appears in a Bill of great Constitutional importance or in a Bill to give effect to international conventions,...
Muta canum
Muta canum [Fr. meute], a mew or kennel of hounds, one of the mortuaries to which the Crown was entitled at a bishop's decease, 2 Bl. Com. 426.
Maxim
Maxim [fr. maximum Lat.], an axiom; a general principle; a leading truth so called, says Coke, quia maxima est ejus dignitas et certissima auctoritas, atque quod maxime omnibus probetur, 1 Inst. 11. Modern opinion, however, does...
Lives
Lives, Estate for. A lease to A. during the life of another or the lives of others was a tenure of very long standing in England, chiefly in the west and north, or where the lease...
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