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Locomotives. I
it appearing that they were so constructed but failed to consume by reason of default of the company owing them or its servants. As to fire caused by sparks from a locomotive, see (English) Railway Fires Act,
Dower
713; and Wolst. & Ch. Conv. Acts, 12th Edn. P. 941. The following note has been preserved verbatim owing to the importance of the subject in relation to titles existing before 1926. The original law of dower
Labourers, Statute of
of the peace had power to regulate the rate of wages, which had risen to an abnormal height owing to the scarcity of labour arising out of the 'Black Death.'
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Judgment-debtor
may, by order of the Court or judge, be orally examined by the judgment creditor as to debts owing to him by third parties, and be compelled to produce books and documents, with a view to attaching
Intermediary and proprietor
Intermediary and proprietor, the expression 'inter-mediary' is defined in s. 3(12) as, 'intermediary', with reference to an estate means a proprietor, under-proprietor, etc. s. 3(21) defines a proprietor to mean, as respects an estate', a person...
Indebtedness
Indebtedness, means (1) The condition or state of owing money (2) something owed; a debt, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 771
Infanticide
(4) If born alive, by what means did it die? If it be proved that its death was owing to violence, it is then to be ascertained who the murderer of it is. If suspicion fall upon
Impossibility
taking any advantage of the circumstance, Maritime National Fish Co. v. Ocean Trawlers Ltd., 1935 AC 524. Impossibility owing to illness terminates a contract for personal services. The outbreak of war may terminate an executory contract, but
Hypothec
a creditor over the property of his debtor. In the case of a landlord to whom rent is owing it is restricted, as to the right to agricultural produce, by the Hypothec Amendment (Scotland) Act, 1867 (30
Husband and wife
on this presumption (see also Callot v. Nash, 39 LTR 292). Where husband and wife are living apart owing to the former's desertion, or by consent, and the husband fails to maintain her, she has an irrevocable
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