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Firearms
air gun, or air rifle and ammunition, if deemed a lethal weapon. A person under seventeen shall not purchase or hire, nor shall anyone sell to such person, a firearm or ammunition. A person under fourteen shall
Fire
or lease of a house, etc., the house, etc., be burnt down, the loss falls on the intending purchaser or tenant, Paine v. Meller, (1801) 6 Ves 349; Counter v. Macpherson, (1845) 5 Moore PC 83; and
Knock-out
is not illegal [Rawlins v. General Trading Co., (1921) 1 KB 635], and to an action by the purchaser of goods sold by auction for the delivery up of the goods, the fact that the sale was
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Joint-stock Banks
bank to the extent of the amount paid to note-holders out of the general assets. The sale and purchase of shares in joint-stock banking companies is regulated by the Banking Companies (Shares) Act, 1867(30 & 31 Vict.
Park
or codicil, for such purposes, and all bequests of personal estate to be applied in or towards the purchase of land for such purposes, shall be valid, notwithstanding the Statutes of Mortmain; and see OPEN SPACES. Park,
Labourers' dwellings
to demolish such dwellings, the power which he had under these Acts of requiring the local authority to purchase the dwellings of him. (2) The (English) Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Act, 1868, amended by 42 & 43Vict.
Option of purchasing an undertaking
undertaking. The word 'option' is used because two courses are open to the concerned authority namely, either to purchase the undertaking or renew the licence, Gujarat Electricity Board v. Shantilal Desai, AIR 1969 SC 239 (242): (1969)
Export
Export, includes the taking or sending out of goods by land, sea or air, on consignment or by way of sale, lease, hire-purchase, or under any other arrangement by whatever name called, and in the case...
Pre-emption, Right of
privilege formerly allowed to the royal purveyor, but abolished by 12 Car. 2, c. 24. See OPTION TO PURCHASE.
Possibility on a possibility
to an unborn person for life, a remainder cannot be limited so as to confer an estate by purchase on that person's issue, Whitby v. Mitchell, ubi sup., and the rule applies to equitable as well as
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