Nineteenth - Law Dictionary Search Results
Sedition
the chief means by which Government, especially at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, strove to put down hostiles critics. It is evident that the vagueness of the charge is a
Settlement
be maintained by that parish and a liability to be removed thereto. In the early part of the nineteenth century, the law of settlement, inconsequence of the increased facilities for locomotion, led to very frequent litigation between
Stocks
(still unrepealed). See SUNDAY. The punishment of the stocks began to be disused about the beginning of the nineteenth century, but has not been expressly abolished; and stocks have been preserved in some country villages and towns;
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Turnpike-roads
hundred, by expiration in accordance with 'Annual Turnpike Continuance' Acts; and they had before the end of the nineteenth century practically ceased to exist.
Wills
heir, executor, or administrator, or person entitled as next of kin under the statute of Distributions; by the nineteenth s., that no will shall be revoked by presumption of an intention on the ground of alteration in
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