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Limitation of actions and prosecutions
Statutes of Limitation; and see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Limitation of Actions.' See also Interim Report of the Law Revision Committee, 'Times,' 23rd December, 1936.
Revision
correction review as the revision of a book or writing or of a proof sheet a revision of statutes … The act of revising reeumlxamination for correction review as the revision of a book or writing or of a proof sheet a
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 only
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Prisonam frangentibus, Statute de
Prisonam frangentibus, Statute de, 1 Edw. 2, st. 2 (in the Revised Statutes, 23 Edw. 1), a still unrepealed statute, whereby it is felony for a felon to break prison, but
Uniformity, Act of
also added to the remedies for clerical deviations from uniformity. An alternative lectionary has been provided by the Revised Table of Lessons Measure, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, No. 3). See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Church and
Criminal Procedure Act, 1885 (English)
1885 (English) (28 & 29 Vict. c. 18), sometimes called 'Mr. Denman's Act' (Chit. Stat. Tit. 'Evidence': Statutes Revised); an Act, as the Preamble states, assimilating thelaw of evidence and practice on trials for felony and misdemeanour,
Lease and release
Trusts, 73; 4 Reeves, 355. By 4 & 5 Vict. c. 21 (repealed by the (English) Statute Law Revision Act, 1874, No. 2) conveyance by release without a lease was made effectual; and by the Real Property … Lease and release, a mode of conveyance which derived its effect from the Statute of Uses, compounded of a lease for a year at Common Law, or a bargain and sale for
Scotland and Ireland
or 5 Anne, c. 8, and may be found in Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Union Acts,' and in the Revised Statutes. This Act confirms twenty-five Articles of Union, gives Scotland sixteen Representative Peers (to be elected for life by
Confirmatio chartarum
must be referred to for the terms of Magna Charta, in the 'Statutes of the Realm' and the 'Revised Statutes.'
Certiorari
Rules 12-39, superseding Rules 28-42 of the Rules of 1886 (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Certiorari'). The Statute Law Revision Act of 1888 repeals 13 Geo. 2, c. 18, so that procedure on certiorari in a very great
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