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suspect classification : a statutory classification that is subject to strict scrutiny by the judiciary of its consistency with constitutional equal protection guarantees because it affects a suspect class ;also : suspect class ...
Stamp duties
Stamp duties, a branch of the revenue. They are a tax imposed on all parchment and paper whereon certain legal proceedings and certain private ins-truments re written; and on licences for various purposes.The consolidating Stamp Act, 1870, superseded the very numerous older enactments [in great part repealed by the (English) Inland Revenue Repeal Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 90)] in regard to the duty on the various classes of instruments, but by s. 17 of the Stamp Act, 1870 (re-enacted by s. 14 of the Stamp Act, 1891), reversing the former law, see Buckworth v. Simpson, (1835) 1 CM&R 384, the stamp to be affixed to an unstamped document to render it admissible in evidence was not the stamp in accordance with the law at the time of affixing it, but the stamp in accordance with the law in force at the time when the document was first executed.Very important alterations in the law of stamps were effected by the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1888. Prior to that Act it was no offence not ...
Parens patriae
Parens patriae, means the State in its capacity as the legal guardian of persons not sui juris and without natural guardians as the heirs to persons without natural heirs, and as the protector of all citizens unable to protect themselves, Kent v. United States, 383 US 541 (1966).The sovereign, as parens patri', has a kind of guardianship over various classes of persons, who, from their legal disability, stand in need of protection, such as infants, idiots, and lunatics....
Courts (Emergency Powers) Acts
Courts (Emergency Powers) Acts (English) empowered the Courts (inter alia) to defer execution,the levying of distress, realization of securities, etc., during the war. The policy of protecting certain classes of tenants and mortgagors was continued and extended by the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (War Restrictions) Act, 1915, since replaced by various Acts which have been superseded by the Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Acts, 1920 to 1935. See too INCREASE OF RENT ETC. ACTS, 1920-1935....
Friendly societies
Friendly societies, associations supported by subscription for the relief and maintenance of the members or their wives, children, relations, and nominees, in sickness, infancy, advanced age, widowhood, etc. by the Friendly Societies Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 60), various prior statutes regulating these societies were in whole or in part repealed, and the law consolidated and amended. Such societies may be formed for providing payments on birth of a member's child, or on death of a member, or for relief and maintenance of members and their husbands, wives, children, etc., in old age or sickness, the endowment of members at any age, the insurance of tools against fire, or of cattle, for working men's clubs, or for any other purpose authorized by the Treasury. Before any such society can be properly established, its rules must have been transmitted to and approved of by the central office for the registration of Friendly Societies. The Act was amended in 1876 by 39 & 40 Vict. c. 32 as ...
Resident
Resident, an agent, minister, of officer residing in any distant place with the dignity of an ambassador; the chief representative of the government at certain native states in India. residents are a class of public ministers inferior to ambassadors and envoys; but, like them, they are under the protection of the law of nations.Also, a tenant, who was obliged to reside on his lord's land, and not to depart from the same; called also homme levant et couchant, and in Normandy, resseant du fief, Leg. H. I.A person who has a residence in a particular place, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1311....
Industrial assurance
Industrial assurance. See the (English) Industrial Assurance Act, 1923 (repealing the Collecting Societies and Industrial Assurance Companies Act, 1896), which consolidates and amends the law relating to industrial assurance. The Act gives increased protection to the poorer classes of assured persons in respect of life insurance business the premiums upon which are received by collectors at intervals of less than two months. 'Industrial assurance funds' (life funds) cannot be made security for a loan other than a temporary bank overdraft. The Act contains important provisions as to forfeiture and surrender of policies, accounts and inspection, and the printing of portions of the Act on policies so as to draw the attention of policy-holders to rights conferred by the Act. See the (English) Industrial Assurance and Friendly Societies Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 28), which permits the issue of endowment policies; and see FRIENDLY SOCIETIES....
discriminate
discriminate -nat·ed -nat·ing : to make a difference in treatment or favor on a basis other than individual merit ;esp : to make a difference in treatment on a basis prohibited by law (as national origin, race, sex, religion, age, or disability) see also bona fide occupational qualification, equal protection, reverse discrimination, suspect class Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the Important Laws section amendment xiv to the Constitution in the back matter dis·crim·i·na·tion [dis-kri-mə-nā-shən] n ...
Censuales
Censuales, a species or class of the oblati or voluntary slaves of churches or monasteries, i.e., those who, to procure the protection of the Church, bound themselves to pay an annual tax or quit-rent out of their estates to a church or monastery. Besides this, they sometimes engaged to perform certain services, Jac. Law Dict....
Guild
An association of men belonging to the same class or engaged in kindred pursuits formed for mutual aid and protection a business fraternity or corporation as the Stationers Guild the Ironmongers Guild They were originally licensed by the government and endowed with special privileges and authority...
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