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Privies, those who are partakers or have an interest in any action or thing, or any relation to another. They have been said to be of six kinds:-(1) Privies in blood, such as the heir to his ancestor, or between coparceners.(2) Privies in representation, as executors or administrators to their deceased testator or intestate.(3) Privies in estate, as grantor and grantee, lessor and lessee, assignor and assignee, etc.(4) Privities, in respect of contract, are personal privities, and extend only to the persons of the lessor and lessee, or the parties to the contract or assignees upon a fresh contract or novation with the assignee.(5) Privies, in respect of estate and contract together, as where the lessee assigns his interest, but the contract between lessor and lessee continues, the lessor not having accepted the assignee in substitution.(6) Privies in law, as the lord by escheat, a tenant by the courtesy, or in dower, the incumbent of a benefice, a husband suing or defending in right of...
Privy
Privy [fr. priv', Fr.], having a participation in some Act, so as to be bound thereby, see the word in this sense in the statutory implied covenant in Part vi. Of the Second Sch. Of the Law of Property Act, 1925, and Woodhouse v. Jenkins, (1832) 9 Bing 441. Also a participation in interest or knowledge. See PRIVIES. Also sanitary accommodation. The Public Health Acts (see PUBLIC HEALTH) aim at securing proper sanitary accommodation for every house. See Tracey v. Pretty, (1901) 1 KB 444.Privy CouncilThe sovereign nominates privy councillors, and no patent or grant is necessary. The number of the Council is indefinite, and is dependent upon the royal will. It is summoned on a warning of forty-four hours, and never held without the presence of a Secretary of State; the junior delivers his opinion first, and the sovereign, if present, last; it is dissolved six months after the demise of the Crown, unless sooner determined by the successor.Privy councillors, on taking the necessary oaths, b...
Privy purse
Privy purse, is the sum fixed by the Government of India for covering the expenses of each of the rulers of former Indian States and their families in consideration of their agreement of merger in the Indian Union, A Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. 4, p. 369.Privy purse, the income set apart for the sovereign's personal use. See CIVIL LIST.The periodical payment of money by the Govern-ment to a Ruler of a former Indian State as privy purse all political considerations and under political sanctions and not under a right legally enforceable in any municipal court is strictly a political pension within the meaning of s. 60(1)(g) of the Code of Civil Procedure. The use of the expression 'privy purse' instead of the expression 'pension' is due to historical reasons. The privy purse satisfies all the essential characteristics of a political pension, and as such, is protected from execution under s. 60(1)(g), Code of Civil Procedure. Moreover, an amount of the pr...
Privy seal and privy signet
Privy seal and privy signet. The Privy Seal (privatum sigillum) is a seal of the sovereign under which charters, pardons, etc., signed by the sovereign, pass before they come to the Great Seal,and also used for some documents of less consequence which do not pass the Great Seal at all, such as discharges of recognizances, debts, etc. The Privy Signet is one of the sovereign's seals, used in sealing his private letters, and all such grants as pass his hand by bill signed, which seal is always in the custody of the King's secretaries. There were formerly four clerks of the Signet Office, but by 14 & 15 Vict. c. 82, s. 3, the offices of the clerks of the signet and of the privy seal are abolished. The practice as to the passing of letters under these seals was altered and simplified by the same statute....
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a tribunal of Privy Councilors, established by 2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 92, for the disposal of appeals to the Sovereign in Council. It consists of the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President and ex-Lords President, the six Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, and such other members of the Privy Council as shall from time to time hold or have held 'High Judicial Office,' i.e., judges of the Supreme Courts of England or Ireland, Court of Session in Scotland, and not more than seven judges of the superior courts of the self-governing Colonies (or other possession fixed by Order in Council), and not more than two judges of any High Court in India as shall be nominated by the King.The Committee sits in Downing Street, Whitehall. Appeals are conducted before it as before a court, although inform it reports to the King advising that an appeal should be allowed or disallowed: consequently dissenting opinions are not disclosed. The principal matters which come before the Ju...
Keeper of the Privy Seal
Keeper of the Privy Seal, now called the Lord Privy Seal, through whose hands all charters, etc., pass before they come to the Great Seal. The office of Lord Privy Seal is always held by a Cabinet Minister....
Lord Privy Seal
Lord Privy Seal. An office with, at the present time, no definite duties, but to which Lord Salisbury attached a salary of 2,000l. It may confer Cabinet rank upon the holder. See PRIVY SEAL....
privy
privy pl: priv·ies [Anglo-French privé, from Old French, intimate, confidant, from privé intimate, familiar, from Latin privatus private] : one having privity ;esp : one who acquires an interest in the subject matter (as property) of prior or pending litigation and is bound by the judgment as if he or she were a party to the action ...
Privy tithes
Privy tithes, small tithes....
Arches, Court of
Arches, Court of [fr. curia de arcubus, Lat.], a court of appeal belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the judge of which is called the Dean of the Arches, because his Court was anciently held in the church of Saint Mary-le-Bow (Sancta Maria de arcubus), so named from the steeple, which is raised upon pillars, built archwise. It was formerly held, as also were the other principal Spiritual Courts, in the hall belonging to the College of Civilians, commonly called Doctors' Commons. It is now held at the Church House, Westminster. Its proper jurisdiction is only over the 13 peculiar parishes belonging to the Archbishop in London, but the office of Dean of the Arches having been for a long time united to that of the Archbishiop's Official Principal, the Dean of the Arches, in right of such added office, receives and determines appeals from the sentences of all Inferior Ecclesiastical Courts within the province. There was formerly an appeal to the king in Chancery, or to a Court of De...
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