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Superannuation Acts, 1834-1935
Superannuation Acts, 1834-1935, (English) for pen-sioning the civil servants of the Crown or public authorities.The (English) principal Act is the Superannuation Act, 1859 (4 & 5 Will. 4, c. 42), which as amended by the Superannuation Acts, 1909 (9 Edw. 7, c. 10), and 1935 (25 & 26Geo. 5, c. 44), fixes the scale of pension at 10/60ths and 10/80ths for entrants after 30th September, 1909, of the average annual salary of the three years before retirement, and see (in the specified cases) s. 4 of the 1935 Act, on retirement after ten years' service, and gives an additional 1/60th or 1/80th for every additional year of service up to the fortieth year.As to local authorities, see (English) Local Govern-ment and other Officers Superannuation Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 59), an adoptive Act; schools (elementary), School Teachers (Superannuation) Acts, 1918-1924; others, Teachers (Superannuation) Acts, 1918-1924; others, Teachers (Superannuation Acts), 1918-1935. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. ...
Institutions
Institutions. It was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and the writings of the ancient jurists were no longer allowed to have any authority, except so far as they had been incorporated in the digest, Smith's Dict. of Antiq. It was therefore necessary to prepare an elementary treatise, and the Institutes were published a month before the Pandects, A.D. 533, and designed as an elementary introduction to legal study (legum cunabula). The work was divided into four books, subdivided into titles.The Institutes are the elements of the Roman Law, and were composed at the command of the Emperor Justinian, by Trebonian, Dorotheus, and The ophilus, who took them from the writings of the ancient lawyers, and chiefly from those of Gaius especially from his Institutes and his books called Aureorum (i.e., of important matters).The Institutes are divided into four...
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