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Beset

or abstain from doing. The effect of this section in the case of a trade dispute has been mitigated by s. 2 of the (English) Trade Disputes Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 47), which legalizes 'peaceful

in the 19th century, mainly through the exertions of Sir Samuel Romilly, the severity of the law was mitigated by rapid steps in this respect. Larceny in a dwelling-house up to the value of 40s. was long

Contingent legacy

whole class if it includes some in whom the gift would not vest within the period has been mitigated by s. 163 of the (English) L.P. Act, 1925, which provides that incases where more than 21 years

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Equity

by giving more ample and distributive redress than the ordinary tribunals afford, it by no means either controls, mitigates, or supersedes the Common Law, but rather guides itself by its analogies, and does not assume any power

Executory devise

and destroyed or prevented from taking effect by several different means, although the stringency of this rule was mitigated by the (English) R.P. Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 8, which provided against failure

Trial

is the same. After a conviction for misdemeanour the counsel for the defendant may address the Court in mitigation, and the counsel for the prosecution in aggravation, of his sentence. Sentence may be deferred to a future

Homicide

the life of a human being. In its several stages of guilt, arising from the parti-cular circumstances of mitigation or aggravation which attends it, it is either justifiable, excusable, or felonious. I. Justifiable, of three kinds: (a)

Housing of the working classes

75), and see ss. 142-144 as to other restrictions upon acquisition of land. The Act of 1936 has mitigated some of the hardships to meritorious owners which arose out of the earlier legislation chiefly in regard to

Magic remedy

other charm of any kind which is alleged to possess miraculous powers for or in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of any disease in human beings or animals or for affecting or influencing in any

Medicine or drug

of human beings or animals; (ii) all substances intended to be used for or in the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of diseases in human beings or animals; (iii) all substances intended to be used for or

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