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Annulus et baculum
Annulus et baculum, ring and pastoral staff or crosier, the delivery of which by the prince was the ancient mode of granting investitures to bishoprics, 1 Bl. Com. 366.
Street offences
Street offences. For list of these, see Town Police Clauses Act, 1847 (Chit. Stat., tit. 'Police'), s. 28 (applied among ss. 21-29 to urban districts by s. 171 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1875 [38...
Question relating to evacuees property
Question relating to evacuees property, the words 'question relating to the property of an evacuee' occurring in s. 50(1) of the Act are wide enough to ring questions arising in within that section. Civil suit for...
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Pick-pocket, or Pick-purse
Pick-pocket, or Pick-purse, a thief who steals by putting his hand privately into the pocket or purse of another: an offence punishable with great severity in early times and still a felony as larceny from the...
Pardon
Pardon, forgiveness of a crime; remission of punis-hment. The pardoning of criminals is the peculiar preroga-tive of the sovereign. See 4 Steph. Com., 7th Edn. The sovereign may pardon all offences merely against the Crown and...
harlequin snake
any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white especially the eastern coral snake a small poisonous snake Micrurus fulvius or Elaps fulvius ringed with red and...
Induction
Induction [fr. inductio, Lat., a leading into], the giving a parson possession of his church. A clerk is not complete incumbent until induction, which is performed by a mandate from the bishop to the archdeacon, or...
Gemot
Gemot, a mote or moote, meeting, public assembly. The various kinds were-(1) The folc-gemot, or general assembly of the people, whether it was held in a city or town or consisted of the whole shire. It...
Finder of goods
Finder of goods, in a public place or shop, acquires a special property in them, available against all the world, except the true owner, who may recover them at anytime within six years; the finder is...
Chimney-sweeps
Chimney-sweeps, prohibition for minors to ascend chimneys, requirement of certificates for master chimney-sweepers, and general regulations.-3 & 4 Vict. c. 85; 27 & 28 Vict. c. 37; consolidated with amendments by the (English) Chimney-Sweepers Act, 1875...
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