Prayer For The Dead - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Prayer for the Dead. A bequest of personal estate for masses for the dead is not void as a gift to superstitious uses, Bourne v. Keane, 119 AC 815; overruling West v. Shuttleworth, (1835) 2 My&K 684, and the cases decided thereunder. See also O'Hanlon v. Logue, (1906) 1 Ir 247, and Re Caus. Lindenboom v. Camille, 1934 Ch 162, A tombstone bearing an inscription 'Of your charity pray for the repose of the soul of' or similar words can be removed, Pearson v. Stead, 1903, P. 66, but see Capel St. Mary v. Packard, 1927, P. 289....
Births, Marriages, and Deaths
Births, Marriages, and Deaths. By the (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 86), amended by the (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1837 (7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 22), a General Register Office is provided for keeping a register of births, deaths, and marriages in England. The Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1874 [37 & 38 (English) Vict. c. 88], amends the laws relating to the Registration of Births and Deaths in England in important particulars, and consolidates the law relating to the registration of births and deaths at sea. This Act (s. 1) imposes upon the father and mother of a child, and in their default, upon the occupier of a house in which to his knowledge a child is born, the duty of giving information to the registrar within 42 days. By s. 10 a corresponding obligation to register a death is imposed upon relatives, etc.By s. 203 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, births of any child alive or dead after the twenty-eighth week of ...
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