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Copyhold. Tenure in copyhold has been abolished under the (English) L.P. Acts, 1922 and 1925, and the Amending Acts of...

Adultery [ad. Lat., and alter, another person], anciently termed Advowtry (quasi ad alterius thorum). The sin of incontinence between two...

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

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Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English). A series of statutes, each of a temporary character, curtailing the contractual...

Insurance, see, Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80C, Expl. 1. Insurance, the act of providing against a possible...

Irrationality, mean what can by now be succinctly referred to Wednesbury unreasonableness, Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for...

Notice of accident. The (English) Notice of Accidents Act, 1906, requires annual returns and notices of accidents in mines and...

Marshal or Mareschal, primarily denotes an officer who has the care or command of horses. An officer called a marshal...

Notice, the making something known to a person of which he was or might be ignorant. Notice is either (1)...

New, the word 'new'. The Oxford English Dictionary lists the following, amongst others, against that word: 'not existing before; now...

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