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Impediment

Impediment, means a hindrance or obstruction, esp., some fact (such as legal minority) that bars a marriage, if known, but that does not void

Hire

The letting to hire implies an obligation to deliver the thing to the hirer; to refrain from every obstruction to the use of it by the hirer during the period of the bailment; to do no act

off any gun or pistl or letting off any firework within 50 feet, or in any way willfully obstructing the free passage of a highway, or committing any of the various other offences therein mentioned; and the

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Guillotine

Guillotine, is an instrument for beheading, Webster's American Dictionary, p. 849. Is a method of preventing obstruction by fixing times at which parts of Bill must be voted on, The Concise Oxford Dictionary, H.W. Fowler

Escheat

take advantage by virtue of its prerogative; while an escheat results from tenure only, and arises from an obstruction in the course of descent; it originates in feudalism, and respects the intestate's succession. So, while forfeiture affects

Engine

Act, 1861, ss. 11, 14, 15; and as to placing wood, etc., on any railway, with intent to obstruct or overthrow any engine, see s. 35. The use of locomotive engines on railways is authorized by the

Dower

1926. The original law of dower became among our ancestors, with the increase of alienation, highly inconvenient and obstructive of the free course of conveyances. The legislature by the 27 Hen. 8, c. 10 (the Statute of

Disturbance

Disturbance, annoyance; also the wrongful obstruction of the owner of an incorporeal hereditament in its exercise or enjoyment. There are five sorts of this

Conspiracy

cheat or defraud, or to extort money or goods, or falsely to accuse of any crime, or to obstruct, prevent, pervert or defeat the course of public justice ''(14 & 15 Vict. c. 100, s. 29); see

In the discharge of duty

In the discharge of duty, s. 121 of the Railways Act, 1890 states: If a person willfully obstructs or impedes any railway servant in the discharge of his duty, he shall be punished with imprisonment for

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