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Hire

sub-divisions of the general head of hire of labour and services. The rights, duties, and obligations of the parties resulting from the contract of bailment for hire may be thus stated:- (I.) Hire of things. The letting

Notice

Notice is either (1) statutory; (2) actual, which brings the knowledge of a fact directly home to the party; or (3) constructive or implied, which is no more than evidence of facts which raise such a strong

Leader of the opposition

as the case may be, who is, for the time being, the Leader in that House of the party in opposition to the Government having the greatest numerical strength and recognised as such by the Chairman of

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Judicial power

determine the rights of persons property by arbitrating between adversaries in specific controversies at the instance of a party thereto; the authority vested in some court, officer, or person to hear and determine when the rights of

Joining together

of merger of two or more political parties and their resultant extinction on formation of a new political party. It will also embrace a case of two or more political parties agreeing to form a new political

Joint-tenancy

tenancy is created where the same interest in real or personal property is, by the act of the party, passed by the same matter of conveyance or claim in solido, and not as merchan-dise, or for purposes

Frauds, Statute of

and by s. 3 grants and surrenders were required to be by deed or writing signed by the party granting or surrendering, or his agent authorized by writing. S. 4 now reads: No action shall be brought

Estoppel

rule is that an indenture estops all who are parties to it, while a deed-poll only estops the party who executes it, since it is his sole language and act, Shep. Touch. 53. (3) In pais, i.e.,

Domicile

must concur to constitute domicile: first, residence; and secondly, the intention of making it the home of the party. There must be the fact and intent; for, as Pothier has truly observed, a person cannot establish a

Divorce

disease, (d) pregnancy at time of marriage by another man. A decree absolute may be made against the party obtaining the decree nisi. The Act of 1937 applies to England and Wales only. In Scotland the remedy

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