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Prize Court
to the Crown is still maintained, the distribution of the proceeds exclusively among the actual captors has been modified and some share of the proceeds will go to the men who, though rendering services of incalculable value,
Primogeniture
sons and daughters all shared equally the property of their parents; and in continental coun-tries exists in a modified form only, if at all. See Eyre Lloyd's 'Rights of Primogeniture and Succession.' In England the customs of
Power of Court to order meeting to be called
Court thinks fit; and (b) give such ancillary or consequential directions as the Court thinks expedient, including directions modifying or supplementing in relation to the calling, holding and conducting of the meeting the operation of the provisions
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Patent Cooperation Treaty
means the patent cooperation treaty done at Washington on the 19th day of June, 1970 as amended and modified from time to time. [The Patents Act, 1970, s. 2(oa)]
Master and servant
is termed the defence of 'common employment' (see that title). But the Employers' Liability Act, 1880, has much modified this exception, by depriving the master of the defence of common employment in the case of negligence by
Implied covenants
COVENANT; 'demise' in a lease still implies a covenant for title and for quiet enjoyment, but may be modified or excluded by an express covenant.
Married women's property
debts out of, give away, or dispose by will of it as he pleased, with these exceptions and modifications:- 1) Her freehold estate became his to manage and take the profits of during the joint lives only.
Marriage
to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on
Magna Carta
less shall give less, according to the old custom of the fees.' The Great Charter only aimed at modifying the grievances of feudalism, which created the military tenure of knight's service. It was reserved for the vigorous
Law Reform (UK)
and qualifies that property as if she was a feme sole (see MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY). The Act also modifies the law relating to restraint upon anticipation (see that title), abolishes a husband's liability for his wife's torts
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