Nineteen - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: nineteenNineteen
Nine and ten eighteen and one more one less than twenty as nineteen months...
Decennoval
Pertaining to the number nineteen of nineteen years...
Dodecandria
A Linnaeligan class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen...
Dodecandrian
Of or pertaining to the Dodecandria having twelve stamens or from twelve to nineteen...
Franc
A silver coin of France and since 1795 the unit of the French monetary system It has been adopted by Belgium and Swizerland In 1913 it was equivalent to about nineteen cents American or ten pence British and is divided into 100 centimes...
Medjidie
A silver coin of Turkey formerly rated at twenty but since 1880 at nineteen piasters about 83 cents...
Passiflora
A genus of plants including the passion flower It is the type of the order Passifloreaelig which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species...
Peseta
A Spanish silver coin and money of account equal to about nineteen cents and divided into 100 centesimos...
Expiring laws continuance Acts
Expiring laws continuance Acts. Acts so called and continuing, generally until the end of the year following that in which they are passed, temporary Acts which would otherwise expire have for many years been passed at the end of each session of Parliament. The practice of passing temporary acts and continuing them by annual continuance Acts is a very old one, which has frequently caused complaint in the House of Commons (see Solicitors' Journal, April 18th, 1903). The (English) Ballot Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 33), was, for example, kept in force by annual inclusion in successive Expiring Laws Continuance Acts until 1908, when it was made permanent. The (English) Expiring Laws Act, 1922, made nineteen Acts permanent, thus effecting a simplification long overdue, and the (English) Expiring Laws Acts of 1925 and 1932 made permanent several other statutes....
Judge
Judge [fr. juge, Fr.; judex, Lat.], one invested with authority to determine any cause or question in a Court of judicature. The word 'judge' denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a judge but also every person who is empowered by law to give, in any legal proceeding, civil or criminal, definitive judgment, or a judgment which, if not appealed against, would be definitive, or a judgment which, is confirmed by some other authority, would be definitive or who is one of a body of persons which body of persons is em-powered by law to give such a judgement (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 19)To secure the dignity and political independence of the judges of the Supreme Court, it is enacted by s. 5 of the (English) Jud. Act, 1875 (replaced by Jud. Act, 1925, s. 12), repeating in effect a provision of the Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Wm. 3, c. 2), that the judges of the Supreme Court (with the exception of the Lord Chancellor, who goes out with the Ministry) shall hold their o...
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