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Charitable uses and trusts

called 'The Mortmain Act,' 1735, after reciting that ifts or alienations of land in mortmain (see MORTMAIN) were prohibited by Magna Charta and other whole-some laws as prejudicial to the common utility, and that such public mischief

Censor

Censor. A person who regulates or prohibits the publication of any newspaper or the production of any play or any part thereof. There is ordinarily

Cellar

Cellar. Also to prohibitions and restrictions upon use as a dwelling-house, see Housing Act, 1936, s. 12; and as a bakehouse, see

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Canon law

to 3 P.M. from 8 A.M., having previously been between 8 A.M. and noon. Canons 75 and 109, prohibiting misconduct on the part of the clergy, are given special force to by s. 12 of the (English)

Candidate

Candidate [fr. Candidatus, Lat., clothed in white], a competitor, one who solicits or proposes himself for a place or office. The name is derived from the toga candida in which competitors at Rome were habited. In...

Cabotage

Cabotage, the class of traffic if prohibited is termed 'cabotage', Chicago Convention, Art. 7, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 1004, p. 478.

Brought in transit

Brought in transit, of means to bring goods from any country into India by land, air, or amphibious means of transportation, where the goods are to be taken out from India on the same conveyance on...

Bread

of adulterating bread may be directed by the convicting justices to be published in some newspaper. S. 14 prohibits Sunday baking, and the consents for prosecution for Sunday trading generally, which are required by the (English) Sunday

Bond covenant

a bond-indenture provision that protects bondholders by specifying what the issuer may or may not do, as by prohibiting the issuer from issuing more debt, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 175.

Bidder

makes an offer at an auction, which he may retract before acceptance, although there may be a condition prohibiting it. See AUCTION.

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