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Voluntas donatoris in charta doni sui manifeste expressa observetur

(Co. Litt. 21a), the Will of the donor, manifestly expressed in his deed of gift, is to be observed

Value

'exchange value,' which is unexceptionable, 1 Mill's Pol. Econ. 528, 578. The word 'value,' it is to be observed, has more than one meaning, and sometimes expresses the utility of some particular object, and sometimes the power

Vacation

Vacation. By Ord. LXIII., r. 4, it is provided that 'the vacations to be observed in the several courts and offices of the Supreme Court shall be four in every year-viz., Long vacation,

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Undue influence

the testator retains his mental capacity, and there is no element of fraud or coercion-it has often been observed that undue influence may in the last analysis be brought under one or the other of these two

Staunforde

done with success and propriety, though sometimes his author has failed him; as, among other instances, may be observed Bracton's definition of larceny, which was not law at the time Staunforde wrote. As Staunforde has the praise

Proof

Moulton L.J. in Hawkins v. Powells Tillery Steam Coal Co. Ltd., (1911) 1 KB 988: 1911 WN 53, observed like this: 'Proof does not mean proof to rigid mathematical demonstration, because that is impossible; it must mean

Standing Orders

Standing Orders, general regulations to be observed in passing private Acts through Parliament. An edition of the Standing Orders of both Houses of Parliament is

Smuggling

or any other law for the time being in force, in respect of which a condition is not observed unless the non-observance of the condition was sanctioned by the proper officer.' In view of clause (o) of

Sinderesis

And this sinderesis our Lord put in man, to the intent that the order of this should be observed. And therefore sinderesis is called by some men the law of reason, for it ministereth the principles of

Royal Assent

Declaratory Act (33 Hen. 8, c. 21), for that special purpose and for the single occasion. The forms observed in both cases do not vary, and are as follows: The Lords being assembled in their own House,

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