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Queen post
One of two suspending posts in a roof truss or other framed truss of similar form See King post...
Queen's Bench Division
Queen's Bench Division, means the English court, formerly known as the Queen's Bench or King's Bench, that presides over tort and contract actions, applications for judicial review, and some Magistrate-court appeals, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1259.The jurisdiction of the Court of Queen's Bench was assigned, by s. 34 of the (English) Jud. Act, 1873, to the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice; and by Order in Council under s. 32 of the same Act, the Common Pleas and Exchequer Divisions were, in February 1881, merged in the same 'Queen's Bench Division,' which began to be styled, after the death of the late Queen Victoria in January, 1901, the 'King's Bench Division.' As to assignment of business to, see (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 56 (2)....
Bounty of Queen Anne
Bounty of Queen Anne, given by royal charter, which was confirmed by Queen Anne (2 Anne, c. 11), whereby all the revenue of first-fruits and tenths (see those titles) which belonged to the English Crown was transferred by Queen Anne to trustees for ever, called 'Governors,' to form a perpetual fund for the augmentation of the maintenance of the poor clergy. After the appropriation of the revenue arising from the payment of first-fruits and tenths to the augmentation of small livings, it was considered a proper extension of this principle to exempt the smaller livings from the incumbrance of those demands; and, for that end, the bishops of each diocese were directed to inquire and certify into the Exchequer what livings did not exceed 50l. a year, according to the improved value at that time; and it was further provided that such livings should be discharged from those dues in future. It has been still further regulated by subsequent statutes, especially by the Queen Anne's Bounty Act, ...
Queening
Any one of several kinds of apples as summer queening scarlet queening and early queening An apple called the queening was cultivated in England two hundred years ago...
Queen's Bench
Queen's Bench, means historically, the highest common-law court in England, presided over by the reigning monarch. The jurisdiction of this court now lies with the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice; when a king begins to reign, the name automatically changes to King's Bench. Also termed court of Queen's Bench, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1259.Queen's Bench. See KING'S BENCH....
Post-dated cheque
Post-dated cheque, are not invalid, but the banker should not pay such a cheque if presented before the date it bears. If therefore, a cheque dated on a Sunday is presented on the previous business day, it should be returned with the answer post-dated. A post-dated cheque, however, if presented at or after its ostensible date, should be paid though the banker knows it to be post-dated, and even if it has been presented before the date and refused payment, Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 3(1), p. 143.Means a cheque must not be post-dated, that is, dated after the day on which it is presented for payment to the drawee branch. Post-dated cheques present for more difficulties to the banker than antedated cheques. There are practical difficulties rather than legal ones ..... But a cheque is generally post-dated because the drawer does not expect to have the funds to meet it until that date arrives. It is a mandate to the banker to the effect that it should not be paid before that...
Post office
Post office, the expression 'post office' includes every house, building, room, carriage or place used for the purposes of the Post Office, and every letter-box provided by the Post Office for the reception of postal articles. [(Indian) Post Office Act, 1898 (6 of 1898), s. 2(h)]The Government 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 (Duties) Act, 1840, which established penny postage), and many other Acts, which are consolidated by the Post Office Act, 1908, as amended by subsequent Acts. Besides its monopoly in respect of letters, telegraphs and wireless telegraphy (q.v.) and telephones (q.v.), it carries on the business of a carrier of parcels, a savings bank, life assurance, the transmission of money by postal orders and money orders, and pays old age pensions. See also (English) Post Office and Telegraph Act, 1920; (English) Post Office (Parcels) Act, 192...
Marshal of the Queen's bench
Marshal of the Queen's bench, an officer who had the custody of the Queen's Bench Prison. The 5 & 6 Vict. c. 22 abolished this office, and substituted an officer called Keeper of the Queen's Prison....
Queen
Queen [fr. cwen, Sax., a wife], a woman who is sovereign of a kingdom. The queen regent, regnant, or sovereign is she who holds the Crown in her own right, and such queen of England has the same powers, prerogatives, rights, dignities, and duties as if she had been a king, the law being so expressly declared in 1554 by 1 Mary, sess. 3, c. 1. Consult Jac. Law Dict....
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