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Restraining Statutes
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Wills
does not apply to tenants in tail after possibility of issue extinct or to a tenant-in-tail who is restrained by statute from barring or defeating the entail. S. twenty-five includes lapsed and void devises in a residuary … Parliament. Before 32 Hen. 8, c. 1, a will could not be made of land, and before the Statute of Frauds a will (see NUNCUPATIVE WILL) could be made by word of mouth. Moreover, the testamentary power
Common Law
into the script' or statute, and non script' or common, we use the latter in a peculiar and restrained sense; signifying by it nothing more than the original institution and authority of the law are not set … by the Court of Chancery at Lincoln's Inn. At other times it is used in contradistinction to the statute law, and then denotes the unwritten law, whether legal or equitable in its origin, which does not derive
Insurance
Chitty's Statutes, tits. 'Insurance (Life and Accident)' and 'Insurance (Sea).' An attempt is also made still further to restrain gambling by the (English) Marine Insurance (Gambling Policies) Act, 1908 (9 Edw. 7, c. 12), under which 'p.p.i.'
Actio personalis moritur cum persona.
v. Homfray, (1993) 24 Ch D 439; and Jones v. Simes, (1890) 43 Ch D 607 as to injunction. This rule of the Common Law has been encroached upon by various statutes; by 4 Edw. 3, c.
Smuggling
or articles on which duties have not been paid, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1394. Smuggling is restrained by the statutes relating to the Customs, and in particular by the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876. In relation
County palatine
1925, s. 19]. [See In re Conolly Bros., Wood v. ConollyBros., (1911) 1 Ch 731 CA (concurrent proceedings; injunction).] By a number of statutes the practice and proceedings in the Court of Common Pleas and of Chancery,
case
of the test case as binding. 2 : a proceeding usually in the form of a suit for injunction brought to obtain a decision as to the constitutionality of a statute b : the reported facts, procedural … the form of a suit for injunction brought to obtain a decision as to the constitutionality of a statute b : the reported facts, procedural history, and esp. decision in an action land·mark case : a case
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