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Wills

after fourteen days from the death of the testator. These and many subsequent enactments are all and wholly repealed by s. 2 of the Wills Act, 1837, which does not extend to Scotland, where, as generally in

Frauds, Statute of

the proof of which depended upon unwritten evidence. The greater part of the Statute of Frauds has been repealed by the following (English) statutes: Wills Act, 1837 (7 Will. 4 and 1 Vict. c. 26); Civil Procedure

Public health

forms the foundation of modern sanitary legislation. It was followed by some twenty nine amending Acts which were repealed and consolidated by the Public Health Act, 1875 (the Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5,

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Vexatious indictments

Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1933 (which abolished Grand Juries and amended the law as to presentment of indictments), repealed the whole of the Vexatious Indictments Act, 1859, and s. 1 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1867,

Workmen's Compensation Act

together with the Act of 1900, which brought agricultural labourers into the benefits of the earlier Act, were repealed by the (English) Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 58), which very largely increased the scope

Mortmain

Crown, which licence was made sufficient without any such consent by 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 37, repealed and reenacted by the consolidating mortmain and (English) Charitable Uses Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 42),

Mercantile Law Amendment Act, 1856 (English)

deliver goods sold, a writ for the delivery of the goods may be obtained (these two ss. are repealed by the Sale of Goods Act, 1893, and reproduced by ss. 26 and 52 of that Act); (3)

Married women's property

forward was taken by the (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 75), which repealed and consolidated with important amendments, the Acts of 1870 and 1874. S. 1 of this Act, as amended

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 c. 53), which repealed, as practically inoperative, the numerous statutes from 29 Edw. 1, by which officers called 'escheators' were authorized to

Building Acts (English)

Acts. The Metropolitan Building Acts, 1855 and 1862 (which were public general Acts), and their amending enactments wee repealed and re-enacted with many amendments by the local and personal London Building Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict.

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