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Railway

printing upon every passenger ticket 'the fare chargeable for the journey for which such ticket is issued,' on pain of fine upto 40s. for every ticket issued without bearing the fare on its face, by s. 6

Rabbit

upto 2l; trespassers may be required to quit the land and to tell their names and abodes on pain of arrest on refusal, and similar trespass with violence by five or more armed persons is punishable by

Prince of Wales

obligation of his creditors to claim payment of debts within a short period of their being incurred on pain of the debts being barred, see 35 Geo. 3, c. 125.

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Pretensed right

or been in possession of the land, or of the reversion or remainder, for one whole year, on pain that both purchaser and vendor should each forfeit the value of such land to the King and the

Peine forte et dure

Peine forte et dure (the strong and hard pain) [peine (or penance), probably a corrupted abbreviation of prisone, 3 Bl. Com. 325], an old punishment by which

Forfeiture

supposed to hold property in a dead hand locked up from all change or transfer), was prohibited under pain of forfeiture to the lord. The Crown may, however (see MORTMAIN), grant a licence which will avoid this

Pandect', or Digesta

of correction, for which purpose every doctor or scholar was obliged to lend his own perfect copy, under pain of a fine of five lire; hence the term exempla correcta et bene emendata. Books thus corrected were

Narcotic drugs

Narcotic drugs, the word 'narcotic' is a substance which relieves pain, produces sleep, and in large doses brings on stupor, coma, and even death, as opium, hemlock, alcohol etc.,

Mortmain

and other corporations, which were supposed to hold them in a dead or unserviceable hand, were prohibited under pain of forfeiture to the lord, the fruits of whose feudal seigniory (the great hinge of government in those

Mental cruelty

s. 13(1) (ia) can broadly be defined as that conduct which inflicts upon the other party such mental pain and suffering as would make it not possible for that party to live with the other. In other

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