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Accessary, or Accessory

one who, knowing a felony to have been committed, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon; but a wife may lawfully

Broker

9, the London brokers Relief Acts of 1870 and 1884, relieved from the necessity of being admitted by the Court of

Bidal, or Bidall

house of some poor man, who hopes thereby to be relieved by charitable contribution. It is something like 'house-warming' i.e., a

Bankruptcy

procedure usually triggered by insolvency by which a person is relieved of most debts and undergoes a judicially supervised reorganization or

Assizes Relief Act, 1890

Relief Act, 1890, (52 & 53 Vict. c. 12), to relieve the Court of Assize from the trial of persons charged

Adultery

revenge is murder. Formerly the husband of an adulteress was relieved from the obligation to support her, though he himself had

Homine capto in withernamium

the country, so that he or she could not be relieved according to law, Reg. Brev. 79.

Forfeiture

14, conferred on the High Court a general power to relieve against forfeiture. S. 14 was replaced and extended by s.

Straw, Man of

man is good, subject to its regulations, so as to relieve the transferor from liability to pay calls upon the shares,

Land-tax

of the depreciation in value of agricultural land, were greatly relieved by s. 31 of the (English) Finance Act, 1896, which

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