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S
the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet is a consonant and is often called a sibilant in allusion to its hissing sound It has two principal sounds one a mere hissing as in sack
s
The suffix used to form the plural of most words as in roads elfs sides accounts
Workmen's Compensation Act
employment' causing personal injury to a workman (Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 [15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 84), s. 1 (1)] The compensation is not damages for negligence or any other tort at common law or by
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Married women's property
marrying, transferred the ownership of all her property, real and personal, present and future, to her husband absolutely, so that he might sell, pay his debts out of, give away, or dispose by will of it as
King's Bench
King's Bench. The Court of King's or Queen's bench (so called because the King used formerly to sit there in person (though the judges determined the causes), the style of the Court still being coram ipso
Queen's Bench Division
the Queen's Bench or King's Bench, that presides over tort and contract actions, applications for judicial review, and some Magistrate-court appeals, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1259. The jurisdiction of the Court of Queen's Bench was
Shelley's case, Rule in
Shelley's case, Rule in. intimately connected with the quantity of estate which a tenant may hold in realty, is
Lord Mayor's Court in London
Court of London Procedure Act, 1857. In this Court the recorder presided, or, in his absence, the common serjeant (s. 43), or the assistant judge appointed under the Borough Courts of Record Act, 1872. The Mayor's and
Lloyd's
Lloyd's. in the second half of the seventeenth century a number of merchants, ship-owners, and insurance brokers were accustomed to meet in
Queen's Bench
to King's Bench. Also termed court of Queen's Bench, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1259. Queen's Bench. See KING'S BENCH.
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