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Terminable property

Terminable property, means the property such as a leasehold, whose duration is not perpetual or indefinite but that is limited in time or liable to terminate on the happening of an event,

Stockjobbing Act

Stockjobbing Act (English) (7 Geo. 2, c. 8) (made perpetual by 10 Geo. 2, c. 8), which was repealed by 23 & 24 Vict. c. 28. Gambling transactions

Stock

Act, 1870, Part VII., and 20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 28, s. 49 (1)], considered merely as perpetual annuities redeemable at the pleasure of the Government; also, the capital of a public company, as to which

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Spiritual corporations

the members of which are entirely spiritual persons, and incorpor-ated as such, for the furtherance of religion and perpetuating the rights of the Church. They are of two sorts: (1) Sole, as bishops, certain deans, parsons and

Scylla and Charybdis

Disputes Act without neither reducing the term to an absurdity nor allowing prejudice and class interest to be perpetuated. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)

Parish Boundaries

as to the better arrangement of divided parishes, see 39 & 40 Vict. c. 61. In order to perpetuate the memory of parish boundaries it was anciently the custom for the parishioners to walk round or perambulate

Scandal

Edn., p. 1345. Scandal, in pleadings, is injurious, by making the records of the court the means of perpetuating libellous and malignant slanders; and the Court, in aid of the public morals, is bound to interfere to

Rolling stock

from execution by s. 4 of the Railway Companies Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 127), made perpetual by 38 & 39 Vict. c. 31. Rolling stock, includes locomotives, engines, carriages (whether powered or not), wagons,

Remote

Remote, means exceeding the time allowed under the rule against perpetuities for the vesting of interest, Estate of Grove, 70 Cal App 3d 355 (1977).

Record, Courts of

Record, Courts of, those whose judicial acts and proceedings are enrolled on parchment, for a perpetual memorial and testimony; which rolls are called the Records of the Court, and are of such high and

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