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Frauds, Statute of

Frauds, Statute of, 29 Car. 2, c. 3 (A.D. 1676). This famous statute is said to have been famed by...

I.O.U., a written acknowledgement of a debt, so called because it commences with those letters, which custom has substituted for...

Glanville, the author, about 1181, of a book entitled Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Angli', which is supposed to...

Geneva arbitration, an arbitration held at Geneva to determine the extent of the liability of the British Government for having...

Free-board, or freebord. The precise nature of free-board is not very clear, but it may be described as denoting certain...

Executory devise. Mr. Fearne (Cont. Rem. 386) defines an executory devise to be, strictly, such a limitation of a future...

Education. Mr. Forster's Elementary Education Act, 1870 (English) (33 & 34 Vict. c. 75), is the starting point in the...

Material alteration, A material alteration is one which varies the rights, liabilities, or legal position of the parties as ascertained...

Manor [fr. manerium, Lat.; manoir, Fr., habitation, or manendo, of abiding there, because the lord usually resided there], an estate...

Stakeholder, one with whom a stake is deposited [see, generally, (English) Betting and Lotteries Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo....