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Common
powers of management to a parish council, and a parish council may contribute to the expenses of management. Compensation, to be ascertained under the (English) Lands Clauses Acts, is given for interests taken away or injuriously affected … entitled to the same right; all which parties are entitled to bring actions for injuries done to their respective interests, and that both as against strangers and against each other. It is called an incorporeal right, which
Letters of marque
captains and crews. But the owners, before the commission is granted, give security to the Admiralty to make compensation for any violation of treaties between those powers with whom the nation is at peace; and that such … Letters of marque, commissions for extraordinary reprisals for reparation to merchants taken and despoiled by strangers at sea, grantable by the Secretaries of State, with
Lease
of contracts for leases are assigned to the Chancery Division of the High Court. See LANDLORD AND TENANT; COMPENSATION; GOODWILL; APPORTION-MENT; FORFEITURE; CONDITION; RENEWAL; also Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Landlord and Tenant'; and consult Foa, Woodfall or Redman … has greater interest in the property. The person granting is called the lessor, who is possessed of the reversion (as to a reversion being essential to a lease, see 1 Platt on Lease, pp. 9 et seq.);
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Hire-purchase price
goods or by any other means; but does not include any sum payable as a penalty or as compensation or damages for a breach of the agreement. [Hire-Purchase Act, 1972 (2 of 1972), s. 2 (d)] … order to complete the purchase of, or the acquisition of property in, the goods to which the agreement relates; and includes any sum so payable by the hirer under the hire-purchase agreement by way of a deposit
Steward of manor
the abolition of copyhold tenure by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922 (see COPYHOLDS). The scale of compensation to the steward of the manor if he was appointed before the 29th June, 1922, is provided for … L.P. (Amendment) Act, 1924. See also the (English) L.P. Act, 1922, and the (English) Enfranchised Land (Stewards' Fees) Regulations, S.R. & O., 1926, No. 3, as to fees payable to stewards upon extinguishment of manorial incidents and
Quantum damnificatus, Issue
Quantum damnificatus, Issue. This was directed by Chancery to be tried at law to fix the amount of compensation for damage, which prior to the Chancery Amendment Act, 1858 (see that title), could not be awarded in
Pilot
of a pilot is compulsory, even though the pilot was in charge of the ship. A pilot is refused in the (English) Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925, s. 35 (4). As to pilots by air, see (English) Air
Petition de droit (Petition of Right UK)
Petition de droit (Petition of Right UK), one of the Common Law methods of obtaining possession or restitution from the Crown of either real or personal property, or compensation in damages for breach of contract, the
Pasture
pasture with the written consent of the landlord is an improvement for which a tenant is entitled to compensation on quitting by the (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923; and so is, though without any consent or notice, … before the termination of the tenancy. See AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS ACT. Breaking up pasture is frequently prohibited by penal rents and otherwise in agricultural leases, and s. 29 of the (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, which restricts penal
Letters-patent, or letters overt
the invention is likely to be useful in war the naval and military authorities may acquire it upon compensation agreed by the Treasury. The patent may be registered in such foreign countries as are parties to a … or enjoy without such authority. They are so called because they are open with the seal affixed and ready to be shown for confirmation of the authority thereby given. Peers are sometimes created by letters-patent, and letters-patent
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