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S.P.,

S.P., sine prole without issue; d.s.p. means 'demisit sine prole,' i.e. 'died without issue.'...

Knight's fee [feodum militare, Lat.], twelve plough-lands, the value of which was 20l. per annum (2 Inst. 596). By the grant of a knight's fee, land, meadow, and pasture may pass as parcel of it, and even a manor if it is usually called so. Consult Shep. Touch. 92, 93. Selden contends that it was as much as the king was pleased to grant upon condition of having the service of a knight, Tit. Of Hon., p. ii., c. v., ss. 17, 26. See TENURE....

Lloyd's bonds

Lloyd's bonds. Instruments under the seal of a railway company, admitting the indebtedness of the company to a specified amount to the obligee, with a covenant to pay him such amount with interest on a future day. So called from the name of the counsel who originally settled such a bond. All such 'loan notes' issued otherwise than under the authority of some statute are invalid, and by the (English) Railway Regulation Act, 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 85), s. 17, the railway company issuing them forfeits to the Crown a sum equal to the sum for which any note purports to be a security....

Mayor's Court, London

Mayor's Court, London. See LORD MAYOR'S COURT....

Palmer's Act

Palmer's Act, the (English) Central Criminal Court Act, 1856 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 16), enabling a person accused of a crime committed out of the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court to be tried in that Court, in order to give him a trial free from local prejudice. So called from the poisoner William Palmer, of Rugeley, in Staffordshire, who was tried and convicted at the Central Criminal Court in 1856. See Trial of William Palmer, 1912, Edn. by George H. Knott.And see HINDE PALMER'S ACT....

Queen's Coroner and Attorney

Queen's Coroner and Attorney, an officer on the Crown side of the Queen's Bench (6 & 7 Vict. c. 20), who by the (English) Judicature Officers) Act, 1879, became a 'Master of the Supreme Court.'...

Queen's prison

Queen's prison, means a prison established in 1842 in Southwark, to be used for debtors and criminals confined under authority of the superior courts at Westminster, the highest court of admiralty, and the bankruptcy laws, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1259....

Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub-s. (1)

Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub-s. (1), it is well-settled that when this expression is used anything contained in the provisions following this expression is not intended to cut down the generality of the meaning of the preceding provision, King-Emperor v. Sibnath Banerji, 1945 FCR 195: AIR 1945 PC 156; Shiv Kirpal Singh v. V.V. Giri, AIR 1970 SC 2097 (2112): (1970) 2 SCC 567. (Indian Penal Code, s. 171c)...

Taltarum's case

Taltarum's case, Y.B. 12 Edw. IV. 19 (translated in Tudor's Leading Cases on Real Property), decided that an estate tail could be barred by a common recovery (q.v.)....

Taylor's (Michael Angelo) Act

Taylor's (Michael Angelo) Act (English) (57 Geo. 3, c. xxix.), for paving certain streets of London. See MICHAEL ANGELO TAYLOR'S ACT....

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