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Actio personalis moritur cum persona.

by that statute), and the Civil Procedure Act, 1833, s. 2, as to trespass to land within 6 months before death (action to be within one year after death), and by the Fatal Accidents Act, 1846 (Lord

Executor

of their claims to a named person within the time (not being as a rule less than two months) fixed by the notice and he may at the expiration of the time distribute the estate, having regard

Interpretation Act, 1889 (English)

e.g., s. 313 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1875. For further provisions of the Act, see DISTANCE; MONTH; PARISH; REPEAL; SERVICE; STATUTORY DECLARATIONS.

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Wages

the remuneration is to be paid daily or weekly, it can be called wages. But when it is monthly remuneration payable on the last day of the month or after that date, and when the remuneration considering

Pawnbroker

pledge in pawn unless the pawner takes a pawn-ticket. 16. Redemption. Every pledge shall be redeemable within 12 months from the day of pawning, exclusive of that day; and there shall be added to that year of

Wrongful dismissal

as on the contract. The custom that a domestic servant may be dismissed at any time by a month's notice or payment of a month's wages has been judicially proved, Mould v. Halliday, (1898) 1 QB 125.

Institutions

Dict. of Antiq. It was therefore necessary to prepare an elementary treatise, and the Institutes were published a month before the Pandects, A.D. 533, and designed as an elementary introduction to legal study (legum cunabula). The work

Civil Law

completed in the incredibly short space of three years, and published on the 16th December, A.D. 533, a month after the appearance of the Institutes; its publication having been delayed a month, in order that the elementary

biweekly payment mortgage

biweekly payment mortgage a mortgage paid twice a month instead of once a month, reducing the amount of interest to be paid on the loan. Source: U.S.

cut-off date

determines whether a preference immigrant visa applicant can be scheduled for an immigrant visa interview in any given month. The cut-off date is the priority date of the first applicant who could not get a visa interview

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