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Partition
Co-owners, other than coparcener or copy-holders, were compellable to make partition by 31 Hen. 8, c. 1 (the Preamble of which sets forth the disadvantages of co-ownership), and 32 Hen. 8, c. 32, the latter Act applying
Trinity house
navigation by licensing and regulating pilots, and ordering and erecting beacons, lighthouses, buoys, etc., and stated in the preamble of 8 Eliz. c. 13 to be 'charged with the conduction of the Queen's Majesty's Navy Royal, and
Uniformity, Act of
August 24 (the feast of St. Bartholomew) following (see Lane's Notes on English Church History). After a long preamble setting forth the preparation of the Prayer Book by several Bishops and other Divines appointed by the King,
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University
Ireland. Abolition of Tests.-The (English) Universities Tests Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 26), proceeding on the preamble 'that it is expedient that the benefits of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Durham, and of the
Year
Act, 1750 (24 Geo. 2, c. 23) (Chitty's Statutes, tit. ' Time '), but as appears from the preamble to that statute, the 1st of January had been the first day of the year in Scotland, in
Passage, Court of
ancient court of record for the trial of civil actions arising within the City of Liverpool; see the preamble to the Liverpool Court of Passage Act, 1893, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Local Courts.' This and an amending Act
Nonagium, or Nonage
Nonagium, or Nonage, a ninth part of movables which was paid to the clergy on the death of persons in their parish, and claimed on pretence of being distributed to pious uses, Blount. The condition of...
Parliament, the Imperial
about the middle of the twelfth century.' The earliest mention of it in the statute is in the Preamble to the Statute of Westminster 1st, AD 1272. See titles HOUSE OF COMMONS; HOUSE OF LORDS; ACT OF
Criminal Procedure Act, 1885 (English)
Vict. c. 18), sometimes called 'Mr. Denman's Act' (Chit. Stat. Tit. 'Evidence': Statutes Revised); an Act, as the Preamble states, assimilating thelaw of evidence and practice on trials for felony and misdemeanour, and other proceedings in courts
establish
permanently by enactment or agreement [we the people of the United States…do ordain and this Constitution "U.S. Constitution preamble"] 2 : to make firm or stable 3 : to bring into existence : found [Congress shall have
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