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Divisional Court

expedient so to constitute the Court (Judicature Act, 1925, s. 63(6), replacing Jud. Act, 1884, s. 4). See PRECEDENTS and R.S.C. Ord. LIX. Appeals from County Courts no longer lie to the Divisional Court, but by Administration

Divorce

Geo. 6, c. 51), amending the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, for (a) adultery, (b) desertion for three years preceding petition, (c) cruelty, (d) incurable unsoundness of mind, and, on the wife's petition, for unnatural offences, subject to

Double pleading

subsequent pleadings, the meaning was that none of them was to contain several distinct answers to that which preceded it; and the reason of the rule in each case was, that such pleading tended to several issues

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Electrical resistance wires

wires, the expression 'electrical resistance wires' in Item 73(23) has to be read along with the 'Nichrome' which precedes that expression and, it can only mean electrical wires having characteristics similar to those of Nichrome, namely, high

Drengage

Drengage, the tenure by which the drenches or drenges held their lands. See preceding title

Drunkenness

s. 12 of the (English) Licensing Act, 1872, or otherwise similarly punishable], and who within the twelve months preceding the date of the commission of the offence has been convicted summarily at least three times of any

Earl

viscount, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 525. Earl, is the third degree of peerage in order of precedence, but the first in antiquity. (Cruise on Dignities (2nd Edn.) CIS 55: Co Rep 499, see also Halsbury's

Electoral franchise

originally not less than 60 years of the same annual value; or (iii) was for 12 months immediately preceding the last day of July in any year the occupier of lands or tenements of the rateable value

Employer

section 12AA; (iv) a local authority; and (v) every artificial judicial person, not falling within any of the preceding sub-clauses. [Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 115W(a)] Employer, means: A person who controls and direct a

Entitled

Entitled, the word 'entitled' in the context must take colour from the preceding words and must be understood to mean that the Government must have an independent claim or right to

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