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Civil Law

ten commissioners, including the three, were appointed with the title De Legibus Scribendis, whose duty it was to revise, digest, and enforce the new laws. All other magisterial offices were then suspended, and these ten commissioners, or

Acton-burnel

so termed from the place where it was made, situated in Shropshire. Repealed by the (English) Statute Law Revision Act, 1863.

Civil Bill Court

chairman of quarter sessions (where the jurisdiction is more extensive than in England), and performs the duty of revising barrister. The procedure of the Civil Bill Courts is regulated by 27 & 28 Vict. c. 99; 28

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Chancery Regulation Act, 1862 (English)

which the Court became bound to determine every question of law and fact; repealed by the Statute Law Revision and (English) Civil Procedure Act, 1883, as having been superseded by the Judicature Act, 1873, s. 24, and

Canon law

authorities might be expected to produce, See Hall. Lit. Hist. The canons made in England in 1603, and revised in 1866, are binding on the clergy only, see per Lord Hardwicke in Middleton v. Croft, (1737) 2

Blasphemy

time made profession of Christianity, the statute 9 & 10 Wm. 3, c. 32 (c. 35 in the Revised Statutes), Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Criminal Law (Offences against Peace, etc.), commonly called 'The Blasphemy Act,' though it is

Being under sentence of life imprisonment

become final, but is being impeached or is still liable to be impeached by way of appeal or revision or other mode known to law, Dilip Kumar Sharma v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1976 SC 133:

Bearers

had power to inquire into their actions, etc.-4 Edw. 3, c. 11, repealed by the (English) Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act, 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. c. 59).

Bastardy-bonds

Poor Law Amendment Act,1834 (4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 76), s. 70. [(English) Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act, 1874.]

Barmote

c. 94); and Order of the Chancellor of the Duchy of May 30, 1859, Statutory Rules and Orders Revised, 1904, 'Inferior Court,' E., p. 63.

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