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Account or Accompt

must keep proper books of account, and present to the company in general meeting not less than 18 months after incorporation and subsequently at least once in every year a profit and loss account and balance sheet,

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

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

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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,

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

Bastard

obtain a summons notwithstanding that the father may not have paid money for the child's maintenance within twelve months of the birth of the child. As to the obligations of the putative father to the mother of

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

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

Annus deliberandi

him. By 21 & 22 Vict. c. 76, s. 27, the period of deliberation was reduced to six months, Scots Law.

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