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Husband and wife

'separate use,' 'trusts,' and 'equity to a settlement,' very largely modified the Common Law in favour of the wife; and the

will of it as he pleased, with these exceptions and modifications:- 1) Her freehold estate became his to manage and take

by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the

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Major port, means a port declared to be a major port by or under any law made by Parliament or...

Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III...

Machinery. As to the riotous destruction of machinery, see Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 97), s....

Limitation, words of, those which operate by reference to, or in connection with, other words, and extend or modify an...

Legislative power and judicial power, the essence of the distinction between legislative power and judicial power is that the legislature...

a feme sole (see MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY). The Act also modifies the law relating to restraint upon anticipation (see that title),

A specially modified part of the ventral fin in male elasmobranchs which serves

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