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Preferment

The act of choosing or the state of being chosen preference

Educated unemployed youth

223 (2) read with the note embodies a rule of preference. The question of grant of preference under the note beneath

Winding-up

the law of bankruptcy (s. 262). S. 264 provides for preferential payments and (if the company is registered in England) postpones

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Salic, or Salique

royal family. The Salic law had not in view a preference of one sex to the other, much less had it

Quando jus domini regis et subditi concurrunt jus regis praeferri debet

title of a subject concur, the King's title must be preferred, Laws of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 8, para 1076, p.

Preferential payments

Preferential payments, in bankruptcy, administra-tion of estates of persons dying insolvent,

Freedom of expression

expression is the first condition of liberty. It occupies a preferred position in the hierarchy of liberties giving succour and protection

Executor

at any time before judgment therein, pay one creditor in preference to another of equal degree. After an order for administration

Abatement

then subject to the personal representatives' rights of retainer and preference, see A.G. v. Jackson, 1932 AC 365, their debts must

Bill in criminal cases

the bill was an indictment of a crime or misdemeanour preferred to a grand jury; evidence in support of it was

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