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Magna Carta

Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents...

Pension

Pension, an annual allowance made to any one, usually in consideration of past services. By the (English) Succession to the Crown Act, 1707, (6 Anne, c. 7) (c. 41 in the Revised Statutes), and 1 Geo....

Uses

Uses (History). A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The Common Law treated the actual possessor for all purposes as the owner of the property. It...

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Limitation of actions and prosecutions

Limitation of actions and prosecutions. By various statutes, of which the first was 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, the (English) Limitation Act, 1623, and the principal succeeding ones, the Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 &...

Scilicet

Scilicet [Lat., abbrev. Scil. Or sc., i.e., scire licet] (that is to say, to wit). This is not a direct and separate clause, nor a direct and entire clause, in a conveyance, but intermedia; neither is...

Public trustee

Public trustee. The office of Public Trustee was established by the (English) Public Trustee Act, 1906, which came into force on 1st January, 1908. The Public Trustee is a corporation sole, and may if he thinks...

Special circumstances

Special circumstances, the expression 'special cir-cumstances' is not defined in the Civil Procedure Code nor is it capable of any precise definition by the court because problems of human beings are so varied and complex. In...

Judgment

Judgment [fr. judgment, Fr.], judicial determination; decision of a Court. Under the former practice of the superior Courts, this term was usually applied only to the Common Law Courts, the term 'decree' being in general use...

Industry

Industry, 'Industrial dispute' and 'workman' taken in the extended significance, or exclude it. Though the word 'undertaking' in definition of industry is wedged in between business and trade on the one hand and manufacture on the...

Common employment

Common employment. The general rule that a master is liable for damage caused by the negligence of his servant has the exception that where the person injured is the fellow-servant of and engaged in common employment...

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