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Statute Law Revision Acts
passed. In 1890, as explained in an Introductory Note to vol. 4 of the 2nd edition of the Revised Statutes, a Select Committee of the House of Commons considered the subject of statute law revision, and recommended the … of the House of Commons considered the subject of statute law revision, and recommended the omission from the Revised Statutes of 'any preambles' [but see that title] 'to an act, or introductory words to a s., which though
Preamble
Vict. c. 48), often extended to very great length, are now very frequently discontinued; and in Statute Law Revision Acts passed since 1888, Parliament has repealed preambles of statutes still in force, but Lord Halsbury, L.C., in
Marginal note
CP 5, per Willes, J.; Sutton v. Sutton, (1882) 22 Ch D 5, per Jessel, M.R. In the Revised Statutes they have been revised throughout to make them in accordance with the text; and in Chitty's Statutes of
Frauds, Statute of
be specifically performed, see McManus v. Cooke, (1887) 35 CD 681. The 17th, or, as numbered in the Revised Statutes, the 16th, s. provided that no contract for the sale of goods for 10l. or more should be
break
Scott, Jr."] b : to escape by force from [s prison or escapes or flees from justice "Colorado Revised Statutes"] 3 : to cause (a strike) to fail and discontinue by means (as force) other than bargaining vi … break in·to : to enter by force or without privilege [an officer may break into a building "Arizona Revised Statutes"]
Act of Parliament
otherwise provided (English) Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act, 1793 [33 Geo. 3, c. 13)]. Before this Act, all statutes related back to the first day of the sessions in which they were passed. But where an Act … taken by the Government with a view to classifying and consolidating the Statute Law, and various Statute Law Revision Acts (see that title) have been passed, by which a vast number of obsolete and unnecessary Acts and
Obsolete
the stocks (see STOCKS), the provision of the Gaming Act of Henry VIII. (33 Hen. 8, c. 9) (Revised Statutes, 2nd Edn., vol. i. p. 378, published in 1888; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Games and Gaming'), by which labourers
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