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Bankrupt

and in the case of the latter the seat is vacated unless the disqualification is removed within six months (s. 33). Married women.--A married woman who carries on a trade or business, whether separately from her husband

Alimony

the Court may suspend pronouncing its decree until such deed shall have been executed. The court may order monthly or weekly payments, and may discharge the order, or increase, modify, or temporarily suspend the payments. In default

Accounts duties

Duties, upon a donatio mortis causa (q.v.); upon the gift inter vivos of a donor dying within three months; on joint property voluntarily so created and taken by survivorship; and on property taken under a voluntary settlement

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Act of Bankruptcy

by a debtor renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt if the petition is presented within three months thereafter. Under s. 1 of the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 59), any

Action redhibitoria

Action redhibitoria, an action instituted to avoid a sale within six months from the conclusion of the contract on account of some vice or defect in the thing sold, which

Ad melius inquirendum

coroner was directed on a second view, by exhumation, of the body, to hold a second inquest (two months after the first), in a case of death by poison, and (English) Coroners Act,1887, s. 6, sub-s. 1,

Adulteration

a first offence by a fine not exceeding 50l.; for a second offence by imprison-ment not exceeding six months. The sale to the prejudice of the purchaser of articles of food and drugs not of the nature,

Alien

would have been a British subject if born before 1st January, 1915, and who was born within twelve months after 1st August, 1922; and (c) Any person born on board a British ship whether in foreign territorial

Allotments

by the 1925 Act, s. 1). This Act as amended by the Allotments Act, 1922, necessitates a six months' or longer notice to quit (but see s. 30(2) of the Act, 1908, and s. 1 of the

Abusing children

5 of this Act in respect of a girl between 13 and 16 must be commenced within 9 months of the offence by virtue of s. 2 of the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1922. A girl

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