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Forfeiture
to observe that the s. is (1) except in regard to assignments in breach of covenant before 1926, retrospective, so as to apply to leases made before its passing, and (2) incapable of being nullified by any … provision for the appointment by the Crown of administrators of the property of convicts. (2) Conveyance contrary to law, as transferring a freehold to an alien, who formerly could take lands but could not hold them; wherefore
Settled land
Land Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 38), came into operation on the 1st January, 1883, was retrospective, and though not repealing the Act of 1877, rendered its provisions comparatively useless. The main objects of the … instrument so far as relates to equitable interests affecting the estate and subject to the provisions of the Law of Property and other land legislation of 1925, except that in some cases, notably a first vesting instrument
Riot Damages Act, 1886
the Metropolitan Police Compensation Act, 1886 (49 & 50 Vict. c. 11), applicable to the metropolis only and retrospective, and shortly afterwards to the general Riot Damages Act, 1886, by which (1) the police district is substituted … property stolen. A serious riot occurring in the metropolis on February 8th, 1886, and disclosing insufficiency in the law of compensation led very quickly to the Metropolitan Police Compensation Act, 1886 (49 & 50 Vict. c. 11),
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Common informer
the (English) Larceny (Advertisements) Act, 1870, the informers have lost the benefit of their penal action by a retrospective enactment that proceedings therein be stayed in payment of their costs out of pocket. See PENAL STATUTE. … Common informer, a person who prosecutes others for breaches of penal laws, or furnishes evidence on criminal trials for no other reason than to get the penalty or a share
Forgery
was suggested by Barton v. London & North Western Ry. Co., (1889) 24 QBD 77, and is made retrospective by the (English) Forged Transfers Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 36), enables, but does not oblige, … of fraudulently making a false document or altering a real one to be used as if genuine, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 661. Forgery at Common Law was a misdemeanour but most forgeries have been made
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