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Chattels or catals
Chattels or catals [fr. Catalla, Lat.; chatel, Fr.; chaptel, Old Fr.]. The word 'catalla' among the Normans primarily signified only beasts of husbandry or, as they are still called, cattle, but in a secondary sense the...
Campbell's (Lord) Acts (English)
Campbell's (Lord) Acts (English)-(1) for amending the practice in prosecutions for libel (see that title), 6 & 7 Vict. c. 96 (the LibelAct,1843); and (2) the Fatal Accidents Act,1846, now, with its amending Acts, known as...
Alien
alien enemy was to be naturalized for ten years after the termination of the Great War. The important question of the status of aliens is dealt with by ss. 17 & 18, which are as follows:-- 17.
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Fraud
are transactions between parent and child, attorney and client, principal and agent, guardian and ward, trustee and cestui que trust, partners, etc. Others are of a mixed character, combining the ingredients of the preceding with others of
Pleader
Pleader [fr. narrator, Lat.], one who draws pleadings. See SPECIAL PLEADER. It means any person entitled to appear and plead for another in Court, and includes an advocate, a vakil and an attorney of a High...
Pollution of offshore environment
health, hindrance to marine activities, including fishing and other legitimate uses of the offshore areas and impairment of quality of sea water for use and reduction of ameni-ties. [The Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Act, 2002,
Population
the mode of ascertaining the 'population' of a municipal borough according to the returns of the last census, q.v., for the purposes of investment in its stock under s. 1 (m) of the (English) Trustee Act, 1925,
Practicable
Practicable, means possible, R(Q) v. Home Secretary (CA), 2004 LR 36 QB.
Priority
or any interest therein created before 1926, which have not been transferred or conveyed after 1925, the rule qui prior est tempore potior in jure prevails if equities are equal, and a purchaser is still affected with
Probate, Court of
in testamentary matters was transferred. By Jud. Act, 1873, it was merged in the Supreme Court of Judicature, q.v. See WILLS.
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