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Rehearse

To repeat as what has been already said to tell over again to recite

Abstract of title

Finance Acts); the dates of the different assurances; the names and additions of the parties; that no important recitals are omitted; and that those that are abstracted are faithfully given. The receipt clause should be attended to,

Agricultural Gangs Act, 1867

Agricultural Gangs Act, 1867 (English) (30 & 31 Vict. c. 130). This Act, after reciting that in certain counties in England certain persons known as gangmasters hire children, young persons, and women, with

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Apothecaries

England and Wales is mainly regulated by the (English) Apothecaries Act, 1815 (55 Geo. 3, c. 194) (which recites and partly repeals but otherwise confirms the charter of James the First to the Apothecaries Company), and the

Appointment in exercise of a Power

the trustees will then hold the funds in trust for the appointees accordingly. A deed of appointment should recite or refer to the power, and be expressed to be in exercise of it, as manifesting the intention

Award

The award must be stamped with a 10s. stamp. Any words expressive of a decision are an award. Recitals are unnecessary. The award must be entire, final, on all the matters referred, or it will be void

Bargain and sale

Bargain and sale, A contract for the sale of real or personal property of any kind operating under the Statute of Uses as a conveyance of the land, or at Common Law, from early times of...

Body

Body, the main part of any instrument; in deed sit is spoken of as distinguished from the recitals and other introductory parts and signatures; in affidavits, from the title, and jurat, q.v.; also the term is

Charitable uses and trusts

Charitable uses and trusts. 9 Geo. 2, c. 26, commonly called 'The Mortmain Act,' 1735, after reciting that ifts or alienations of land in mortmain (see MORTMAIN) were prohibited by Magna Charta and other whole-some

Charities, or Public Trusts

Charitable Uses Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 52); but s. 13, sub-s. 2, of that Act recites this definition at length, and provides that 'whereas in divers enactments and documents reference is made to charities

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