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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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