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call

installment of subscription to capital 2 : call option at option 3 a : a formal announcement or recitation [the daily of the motion calendar] b : roll call [the speaker ordered a of the house]

Michael Angelo Taylor's Act (English)

Taylor's Act, so far as in force and not inconsistent with the Act of 1862 and the Acts recited therein.

Petition of Right

recognised by a legislative enactment. With this view they framed a petition to the king, in which, after reciting various statutes by which their rights and privileges were recognized, they prayed the king 'that no man be

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Parol evidence

required by law, or agreed upon by the parties, as the authentic memorial of the facts which it recites. But parol evidence is admissible to defeat a written instrument on the ground of fraud, mistake, etc., or

Parcels

a conveyance mortgage, or other assurance. The description may be express and independent, or by reference to the recitals in the deed, or to the subsequent parts of the instru-ment, or to some other instrument (Dav. Prec.

Misrecital

Misrecital, a wrong recital. If it be in the beginning of a deed, which goes not to the end of a deed,

High Steward, Court of the Lord

treason, felony, or misprision, appoints a Lord High Ste-ward pro vice, by commission under the Great Seal, which, reciting the indictment so found, gives him power to receive and try it secundum legem et consuetudinem Angli'. When

Metric system

place of the repealed (English) Metric Weights and Measures Act, 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 117), which recited that 'for the promotion and extension of our internal as well as our foreign trade, it was expedient

Know-how

very useful colloquial expression of no precise meaning and was used in the agreement in the context of recital and not in relation to the expertise of an individual workman, is very apt and appropriate to include

House of correction

paupers and vagrants refusing to work; but by 5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 38, ss. 3, 4, reciting that great inconvenience and expense had been found to result from the practice of committing to the common

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