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Accession

already concluded between other countries. The accession of a sovereign takes place immediately upon the death of the preceding monarch. See BILL OF RIGHTS. Accession, means property by. The doctrine of property arising from accession is grounded

Acquisition

The expression 'acquisition' in the definition means only transfer and the expression 'valuable consideration' takes colour from the preceding expression 'cash or deferred payment' and can only mean some other monetary payment in the nature of cash

Actiones nominate

Actiones nominat', writs for which there were precedents. The Statute of Westminster 2, c. 24, gave Chancery authority to form new writs in consimili casu. Hence

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Advocates, Faculty of

(Scotland) Act, 1933. The head of the Faculty is Dean of Faculty, who is elected annually. He takes precedence of all other members of the Bar except the Lord Advocate; these two and the Solicitor-General for Scotland

Age

municipal franchise. Full age in male or female is 21 years, which age is completed on the day preceding the twenty-first anniversary or a person's birth. By s. 1(1) 5 of the (English) Law of Property Act,

Alien

the Crown. The residence required is residence in the United Kingdom for not less than one year immediately preceding the application, and previous residence in some part of the King's dominions, here or elsewhere, for four years

Prenotion

A notice or notion which precedes something else in time previous notion or thought foreknowledge

Preferential

Giving indicating or having a preference or precedence as a preferential claim preferential shares

Forerun

To turn before to precede to be in advance of something following

Nineteenth

Following the eighteenth and preceding the twentieth coming after eighteen others

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