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Association, Memorandum of. A statement in writing to be stamped as if it were a deed, bearing the attested signatures of not less than seven persons or, if it is a private company, of not less than two persons, each taking at least one share in the company which is the subject of the memorandum, Companies Act, 1929, ss. 1 and 2.The memorandum defines the nature and objects of the company. It constitutes the charter of the company and is incapable of alteration, Ashbury Railway & Co. v. Riche, (1875) LR 7 HL 653, except under the special provisions of the Act of 1929 (see s. 4). In particular the objects may not be altered unless the alteration has been confirmed by the Court (s. 5), and see ss. 19, 49, 50, 53, 55, 147 and 153, and ASSOCIATION, Articles OF. Consult Palmer's Company Law or Hemmant's Company Law....
Free-chapel
Free-chapel, a place of worship, so called because not liable to the visitation of the ordinary. It is always of royal foundation, or founded at least by private persons to whom the Crown has granted the privilege, 1 Burn's Ec. Law, 298....
Salic, or Salique
Salic, or Salique [lex salica, Lat.], an ancient and fundamental law of the kingdom of France, usually supposed to have been made by Pharamond, or at least by Clovis, in virtue of which males only are to reign.It is a popular error to suppose that the Salic law was established purely on account of the succession of the Crown, since it extended to private persons as much as to the royal family.The Salic law had not in view a preference of one sex to the other, much less had it a regard to the perpetuity of a family, a name, or the succession of land. It was purely a law of economy which gave the house, and the land dependent on the house, to the males who should dwell in it, and to whom it consequently was of more service.In proof of this, the title of allodial lands of the Salic law may be thus stated:-(1) If a man die without issue, his father or mother shall succeed him.(2) If he have neither father nor mother, his brother or sister.(3) If he have neither brother nor sister, the sist...
Qui tam action
Qui tam action, means 'who as well for the king as for himself sues in this matter. An action brought under a statute that allows a private person to sue for a penalty, part of which the government or some specified public institution will receive, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1262....
Privatorum conventio juri publico non derogat
Privatorum conventio juri publico non derogat [Lat.], the agreement of private persons does not derogate from the public right....
Master of the Crown Office
Master of the Crown Office, the Crown coroner and attorney in the criminal department of the court of King's Bench, who prosecuted at the relation of some private person or common in former, the Crown being the nominal prosecutor, 6 & 7 Vict. c. 20. He is now an officer of the Supreme Court. See CROWN OFFICE....
Conventio privatorum non potest publico juri derogare
Conventio privatorum non potest publico juri derogare [Lat.], A convention of private persons cannot detract from public right....
Fiscus
Fiscus, a wicker basket, or pannier, in which the Romans were accustomed to keep and carry about large sums of money (Cic. 1 Verr. C. viii.; Ph'dr. Fab. Ii. 7), hence any treasure or money chest.The treasury of a monarch (as the repository of forfeited property) a noble, or any private person, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 650.The importance of the imperial fiscus led to the appropriating the name to that property which the C'sar claimed as C'sar, and 'fiscus' without any adjunct, was so used (Juv. Sat. iv. 54). Ultimately the word came to signify, generally, the property of the State, the C'sar having concentrated in himself all the sovereign power; thus the word had finally the signification of 'rarium in the Republican period. It does not appear at what time the 'rarium was merged in the fiscus, though the distinction continued to the time of Hadrian. In the latter periods the words were used indiscriminately, to mean the imperial, which was the only public, chest, Smith's Di...
Denial of justice
Denial of justice, in its strict sense, denial of Justice refers to internationally wrongful acts done in the course of the operation of the courts of a state. Courts capable of administering justice effectively for the protection and enforcement of the rights of private persons constitute a necessary part of the machinery of a state. A denial of justice engages the international responsibility of a state, Halsbury's Laws of England (18), para 1738, p. 903....
relator
relator : a party other than the plaintiff upon whose information, knowledge, or relation of facts an action is brought when the right to bring the action is vested in another: as a : the private person who brings a qui tam action b : a party who has standing and on whose behalf a writ (as of mandamus) is petitioned for by the state as plaintiff [ then filed…a petition in prohibition requesting this court to prohibit respondents from transferring the funds "State ex rel. Tate v. Turner, 789 S.W.2d 240 (1990)"] see also ex relatione ...
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