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Acknowledgement of a wife's assurance

Act, 1925, s. 169, replacing and extending the Conveyancing Act, 1911, s. 7, see also MARRIED WOMAN; LAW REFORM.

Accident occasioned by negligence

adopted or illegitimate person is included in the expression 'parent or child' for the purposes of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 41). In Criminal Law a result is said

Socialism

A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor

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Schoolship

the expense of the state and are trained for service as sailors Also a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts to be disciplined and instructed as mariners

Reformer

One who effects a reformation or amendment one who labors for or urges reform as a reformer of manners or of abuses

Pot walloper

A voter in certain boroughs of England where before the passage of the reform bill of 1832 the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled walloped his own pot in the parish

York-Antwerp Rules

and policies of insurance. The rules were adopted as a result of a conference of the Associa-tion for Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations at Antwerp in 1877. The Average Adjusters' Rules adopted by the

Hustings

determine certain classes of suits for the recovery of lands within the city In the progress of law reform this court has become unimportant

Geusdism

The Marxian socialism and programme of reform through revolution as advocated by the French political leader Jules Basile Guesde pron gebreved 1845

far reaching

having a wide range or effect as far reaching or extensive forests a far reaching reform

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