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Reception order
reception of feebleminded and mentally defective persons, see the (English) Mental Deficiency Acts, 1913 to 1927; of (English) Voluntary Patients, the Mental Treatment Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 23). Means an order made under
Ground-writ
Ground-writ. Before the C.L.P. Act, 1852, a ca. Sa. (capias ad satisfaciendum, (q.v.) or fi. fa. (fieri facias, q.v.) could not be issued into a county different from that in which the venue in the action was
Post office
service of the carriage of letters, first established in 1643. Regulated by statutes 7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 33; 1 & 2 Vict. cc. 97, 98; 3 & 4 Vict. c. 96 (the Post Office
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Socage, or Soccage
Socage, or Soccage. Common socage is the ordinary tenure (q.v.) in this country; the exceptions were, until abolished by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922, Borough-English, Gavelkind, etc. (q.v.). Socage is the same as service...
Undivided shares in land
Undivided shares in land. Before 1926 a legal estate in undivided shares in land was held by joint tenants, tenants in common, coparceners, and by husband and wife as tenants by entireties (see those titles), but...
Insurance
Arnould on Marine Insur-ance. Fire Insurance.--Insurance against fire is a contract of indemnity (Farrell v. Tibbits, (1880) 5 QBD 560), by which the insurer, in consideration of a certain premium received by him in a gross sum
Office of profit
of nomination papers and who was drawing a honorarium was not holding an office of profit, Umrao Singh v. Yeshwant Singh, AIR 1970 Raj 134 (141). [Constitution of India, Art. 102(1)(a)] It need not be in the
Education
current and expression of will are brought under control and become fruitful is called education. (Swami Vivekanand as quoted Education for Human Excellence, published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Bombay at p. 20). (See also P.A. Inamdar v.
Actio personalis moritur cum persona.
arising out of contracts of a purely personal nature, e.g., promise to marry, Finley v. Chirney, (1880) 20 QBD 494, or to write a book or paint a picture, See Leake on Contracts; Broom's Max.; Twycross v.
Common employment
adjusted accordingly, or, in other words, that these risks are considered in the wages' [per Balckburn, J., Morgan v. Vale of Neath R. Co., (1864) 5 B&S 578]. For review of cases, see Bray, J., in Cribb
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