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Scintilla juris et tituli
Scintilla juris et tituli [Lat.] (a spark of law and title). A possibility of seisin, which was supposed to exist in the grantee to uses, when all actual seisin was taken from him by the operation...
Customary freeholds
Customary freeholds have been converted into 'socage tenure' by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922, s. 189, see COPYHOLD. Owing to its historical intrest the following note has been preserved unaltered from the previous edition...
Incorporated Law Society
Incorporated Law Society, now termed the Law Society, was founded by Mr. Bryan Holme in 1825, and incorporated in 1831 by Royal Charter; this was surrendered for a new Charter in 1845, by which, as amended...
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Jesuits
Jesuits, members of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order, founded in 1534 by Ignatius Loyola and confirmed by a Bull of Paul III. in 1540, its main object being to stem the tide...
Maxim
Maxim [fr. maximum Lat.], an axiom; a general principle; a leading truth so called, says Coke, quia maxima est ejus dignitas et certissima auctoritas, atque quod maxime omnibus probetur, 1 Inst. 11. Modern opinion, however, does...
Money
Money, means current coin; metal stamped in pieces as a medium of exchange and measure of value. Hence, anything serving the same purpose as coin, late ME. In mod. use applied indifferently to coin and to...
Money Bill
Money, means current coin; metal stamped in pieces as a medium of exchange and measure of value. Hence, anything serving the same purpose as coin, late ME. In mod. use applied indifferently to coin and to...
Munsarib Kammi
Munsarib Kammi, property allowed remission or reduction of rent-assessment specially applied to remission granted in Dindigal by Mr. Peter. Hulus assessment is assessment fixed in the same area by Mr. Hurdis
Oath
Oath [fr. ath, Sax.], an appeal to God to witness the truth of a statement. It is called a corporal oath, where a witness, when he swears, places his right hand on the Holy Evangelists. The...
Gilbert Acts (English)
Gilbert Acts (English) , the Clergy Residences Repair Act, 1776 (17 Geo. 3, c. 53), introduced into Parliament by Mr. Davies Gilbert, providing for the building and repairing of parsonages, with the amending Acts 21 Geo....
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