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Education
Education. Mr. Forster's Elementary Education Act, 1870 (English) (33 & 34 Vict. c. 75), is the starting point in the … Education. Mr. Forster's Elementary Education Act, 1870 (English) (33 & 34 Vict. c. 75), is the starting point in the history of the provision by legislation of a general system
Barrister, or Barrastor
the rule of etiquette was beneficial, and ought to be maintained; and the correspondence between the Attorney-General and Mr. Yerburgh, M.P. (Solicitors' Journal, July 7, 1888), where, however, an important distinction is drawn between contentious and non-contentious … counsel for his advocacy is not binding, see Re Le Brasseur & Oakley, (1896) 2 Ch 487; Kennedy v. Broun, (1863) 13 CBN S 677, where the whole law on the subject of counsel's fees is elaborately
Contempt of court
25l. costs for contempt in very insultingly and intemperately criticizing in the Birmingham Daily Argus a warning of Mr. Justice Darling at the Stafford Assizes to the Press not to publish a report of a trial for … and out of Court. Among the former are all unseemly behaviour (for which, and which only (see Reg. v. Lefroy, (1873) LR 8 QB 134), there is an express power to punish by s. 162 of the
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Duel
Cardigan wounded Captain Tuckett, and was tried before, and acquitted by, the House of Lords in 1841; and Mr. Seton was killed by Lieutenant Hawkey in1845. For a full list of celebrated duels, see Haydn's Dictionary of … It is a misdemeanour to challenge another to fight, or to provoke another to send a challenge, R. v. Phillips, (1805) 6 East 464; and fighting or promoting a duel renders an officer liable to be cashiered
Trade Union
after consulting eight judges, and reversing the judgment of the Court of Appeal, that no action lay against Mr. Allen (who was the London delegate of the boiler-makers' society) by two dismissed shipwrights for maliciously inducing their … Trade Union. The Acts 30 & 31 Vict. cc. 8, 74, provided for facilitating the proceedings of a commission appointed by Queen Victoria to inquire into
Majkuri
Majkuri, the word 'majkuri', according to Mr. Field was an older name of a sikmi taluq, which means older than the Decennial Settlement, and the … that tenure-holders holding a majkuri taluq were only to pay the revenue through the zamindars, Saroda Prosad Pakrasi v. Umasankar Sanyal, AIR 1927 Cal 168.
Leeman's Acts
Leeman's Acts. (English) So called-after the introducer, Mr. George Leeman, M.P. for York City. (1) The Banking Companies (Shares) Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. … introducer, Mr. George Leeman, M.P. for York City. (1) The Banking Companies (Shares) Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 29), by which contracts for sale of bank shares are void unless the numbers of the shares
Free-board, or freebord
sixteen feet and a half round Richmond Park in Surrey; In 'Shakespeare, His Family and Friends,' p. 141, Mr. Elton, Q.C., says: 'At Stratford there was another kind of boundary called 'free-boards,' as mentioned in the (English) … Free-board, or freebord. The precise nature of free-board is not very clear, but it may be described as denoting certain rights enjoyed by the owner of an ancient park
Inevitable accident
from liability in the event of destruction by fire or other inevitable accident; but as pointed out by Mr. Davidson, Prec. Of Convg., vol. ii., pt. 1. P. 665, it is not accurate, for such accidents are … premises excusing the payment of rent or an omission by the lessee to repair. The expression is also very commonly used in covenants for production of documents, exempting the covenator from liability in the event of destruction
Code
A Criminal Code (Indictable Offences) Bills was submitted to Parliament in 1878. This Bill, which was drawn by Mr. Justice Stephen when at the Bar, was referred to a Royal Commission. After the Report of the Commissioners … under his administration are sometimes confusedly designated by the name of the Code Napoleon, Life of Napoleon, by Vieusseux; Myer's Esprit des Institutions Judiciaries. There are English translations of the Code Civil by H. Cachard (1895), and
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