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Married women's property

Married women's property, At Common Law, a woman, by marrying, transferred the ownership of all her property, real and personal,...

Specific performance

Specific performance. Equity, in obedience to the cardinal rule of natural justice that a person should perform his agreement enforces,...

Sale of Goods Act, 1893

Sale of Goods Act, 1893 (English) (56 & 57 Vict. c. 71), codifying the law of the sale of goods,...

Precedent

Precedent, a decision is a precedent of its own features. Further, the enunciation of the reason or principle on which...

Void

Void, 'the erosion of the distinction between juris-dictional errors and non-jurisdictional errors has, correspondingly eroded the distinction between void and...

Scholium

A marginal annotation an explanatory remark or comment specifically an explanatory comment on the text of a classic author by...

Arrangements between debtors and creditors

Arrangements between debtors and creditors. The 125th and 126th sections of the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1869, which repealed an Act...

Bond

such parts are separable. There are two kinds of post obit bonds: (1) Where the sum secured is greater than the

Law

Law [fr. lage, lagea, or lah, Sax.; loi, Fr.; legge, Ital.; lex, fr. ligo, Lat., to bind], a rule of...

Interpretation Act, 1889 (English)

Interpretation Act, 1889 (English) (52 & 53 Vict. c. 63). A most important statute, repealing and re-enacting Lord Brougham's Act...

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