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Intoxicating liquor

mainly regulated by the Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910 (10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5, c. 24), which repealed (see Sched. VII.) the whole or part of thirteen earlier Acts. The effect of this statute is shortly

Escheat

inquiry regulated by rules under the (English) Escheat Procedure Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 53), which repealed, as practically inoperative, the numerous statutes from 29 Edw. 1, by which officers called 'escheators' were authorized to

Regulation

Union Territories, this power of the President have the force and effect of an Act of Parliament, can repeal or amend any law made by Parliament or any other law made application to the Union Territory concerned.

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Things done, action taken and right accrued

Things done, action taken and right accrued, what is unaffected by the repeal of a statute is a right acquired or accrued under it and not a mere 'hope or expectation

Supersession

Supersession, the expression 'in supersession of all previous notifications' all that was done was to repeal and 'replace the previous notifications by new notifications. By repealing and replacing the previous notifications by other notifications,

Substitution

of others. The word substitution necessarily or always connotes two severable steps, that is to say, one of repeal and another of fresh enactment. Indeed, the natural meaning of the word 'substitution' is to indicate that the

Statute Law Revision Acts

general Acts were passed from the year 1861 to 1927 inclusive, for the purpose of expressly and specifically repealing Acts or parts of Acts which had been either impliedly repealed by subsequent statutes on the ground that

Stamp duties

licences for various purposes. The consolidating Stamp Act, 1870, superseded the very numerous older enactments [in great part repealed by the (English) Inland Revenue Repeal Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 90)] in regard to the

Scire facias

of Crown debts and also for rescinding Crown grants and charters, etc. Scire facias on recognizances and to repeal letters patent have been abolished: see as to patents, Patents and Designs Act, 1907. Formerly the issue of

Roman Catholics

religious or monastic vows.' The Roman Catholic Charities Act, 1832 (see s. 4), does not in any way repeal these ss., which provide for the banishment of the persons named therein. In January, 1902, it was sought

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