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Distress
premises, and does not leave thereon sufficient to meet the arrears, Tomlinson v. Consolidated Credit Corporation, (1889) 24 QBD 135, the landlord may within thirty days take and seize such goods wherever found (11 Geo. 2, c.
Married women's property
him by order of Court. S. 19 of (English) Married Women's Property Rights Act, 1907 provided (with a qualification for ante-nuptial debts and rights of creditors) that 'nothing in this Act contained should affect any settlement made … property not being deemed sufficient by the Legislature, the (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 93) (amended in 1874 by 37 & 38 Vict. c. 50), enacted (inter alia) that the earnings
Trust
and all other relations which postulate the existence of fiduciary relationship between the complainant and the accused, State v. K.P. Jain, (1983) 2 Crimes 947 (All). Trust, is a trust for public purposes, the substances and primary … or impliedly in a person (hence called the trustee), for the benefit of another (hence called the cestui que trust, or beneficiary), not, however, issuing out of real or personal property, but as a collateral incident accompanying
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Copyhold
at the lord's will, and according to the custom of such manor. The tenant may have the same quantities of interest in this tenure as he may enjoy in freeholds, as an estate in fee-simple or (by … of 1924 and 1926, but the greater part of the former title on this subject has been retained verbatim in view of the importance of the subject in examining titles. In the previous edition of this work,
Publication
in Scotland. Thus, there can be no publication as between husband and wife, Wennhak v. Morgan, (1888) 20 QBD 635; but publication can be made to either husband or wife respecting the other, Jones v. Williams, (1888)
Water and watercourse
Borough Councils (the County Council appointing fourteen, and the borough councils appointing one each), and other Councils (the quorum being one third of the whole number), to manage the supply of water within London and certain adjoining … water rates. By s. 68 of the Act of 1863 these rates are payable according to the annual value of the tenement supplied with water. London.-The (English) Metropolis Water Act, 1902 (2 Edw. 7, c. 41), and
Lien
the property, or at least a right to vest it; for nemo plus juris ad alium transferre potest, quam ipse habet. There must also be an actual or constructive possession by the party asserting it, with the … treated. (1) As to the manner and circumstances under which a lien may be acquired. To create a valid lien it is essential that the person through whom it is acquired should himself either have the absolute
Discovery
of the documents which are or have been in his possession or power, relating to any matter in question in the action (r. 12), but the judge will not order discovery if he is of opinion it … filed by the opposite party, called a bill of discovery, which was an original bill. Sir James Wigram, V.C., in his work, entitled Points in the Law of Discovery, epitomized the two cardinal principles on this subject
Malicious Damage Act, 1861
Malicious Damage Act, 1861 [(English) 24 & 25 Vict. c. 97], consolidating and amending the law as to arson (q.v.) and other damage to property. The Act
Misrepresentation
to the subject, whether by acts or bywords, by man'uvres, or by positive assertions or material concealment (suppressio veri) whereby a person is misled and damnified. In equity it is immaterial whether the misrepresent or knew the
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