Perpetuity - Law Dictionary Search Results
Allegiance
which every subject owes to the supreme magistrate who oversteps not his prerogatives. It is either natural or perpetual, where one is a subject born, or has been naturalized; or local and temporary, where one is merely
Deposition
where he has become lunatic. See now, however, R. S.C. 1883, Ord. XXXVII., rr. 1, 5; and EVIDENCE; PERPETUATE TESTIMONY, BILLS TO. As to deposition in criminal proceedings (in connec-tion with which the term is most commonly
Constable
1914, on the outbreak of the war with Germany; see the (English) Special Constables Act, 1914, as made perpetual and slightly amended by 13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 11, and the (English) Special Constables Order, 1923,
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Demise
his body politic, the kingdom is transferred or demised to his successor, and so the royal dignity remains perpetual, Plowd. 177. See (English) Succession to the Crown Act, 1707 (6 Anne, c. 41) (c. 7 as commonly
Defence of a country or the security of a country
security of a country or its defence only during war time. A country has to be in a perpetual state of preparedness. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. So it is that the founding fathers with
Debenture
Debenture [fr. debeo, Lat., to owe] may be defined generally as a charge in writing [not necessarily sealed, see British India, etc., Co. v. Commissioners of Inland Revenue, (1881) 7 QBD 165] of certain pro-perty with...
Curate
Act, 1838, ss. 75-103; (English) Pluralities Act, 1884 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 54), ss. 8, 10. See PERPETUAL CURATE.
Court
the Consistory Court. Courts are either of record, where their acts and judicial proceedings are enrolled for a perpetual memorial and testimony, and they have power to fine and imprison; or not of record, being courts of
Corporation sole
Corporation sole, is a body politic having perpetual succession, constituted in a single person, who in right of some office or function, has a capacity to
Conventionary tenements
Cornwall. In those manors certain tenements (known as 'Conventionary tenements') were held by way of leases which were perpetually renewable every seventh year at the Assesion Court, Rowe v. Brenton, (1828) 8 B&C 737.
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