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Alsatia

having been an establishment of the Carmelites, or White Friars, founded in 1241. In the time of the Reformation the place retained its immunities as a sanctuary, and James I. confirmed and added to them by a

Alnet, De

relief or other alms was a disqualification for the parliamentary franchise in boroughs by s. 36 of the Reform Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Will. 4, c. 45), and in counties by s. 40 of the Representation

Adoption

385; Reg. v. Walker, (1912) 28 TLR 342 (375). See Geary on Marriage and Family Relations, and Law Reform (Misc. Prov.) Act; 1934, s. 2. Adoption of Poor Child.--Sometimes benevolent persons apply to County or Borough Councils,

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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

Schwenkfelder

A member of a religious sect founded by Kaspar von Schwenkfeld a Silesian reformer who disagreed with Luther especially on the deification of the body of Christ

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

Sacramentarian

A name given in the sixteenth century to those German reformers who rejected both the Roman and the Lutheran doctrine of the holy eucharist

Re formation

The act of forming anew a second forming in order as the reformation of a column of troops into a hollow square

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