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Chancellor, Lord
s. 12). He is a cabinet minister, a privy councillor, and prolocutor of the House of Lords by prescription (but not necessarily, though usually, a peer of the realm), and vacates his office with the ministry by
Contra non valentem agere nulla currit prescriptio
Contra non valentem agere nulla currit prescriptio [Lat.], No prescription runs against a person unable to bring an action.
Corporation or body politic
by virtue of the sovereign's prerogative exercised by a charter, or of an Act of Parliament, or of prescription, that the artificial personage called a corporation, whether sole or aggregate, civil or ecclesiastical, is created. The royal
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Year and a day
Judicial Dictionary. Year and Day [annus et dies, Lat.], a time that deter-mines a right or works a prescription, etc., in many cases; see Jac. Law Dict.; Co. Litt. 254 b. A person wounded must die within
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