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Judicial separation

cause for two years and upwards [(English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 185]; also by justices, under the Married Women (Maintenance) Acts, 1895

Official liquidators

Act, 1862, s. 92. See now (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 185, replacing the (English) Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, ss. 149 et

Official receivers

the making of a winding-up order, see Companies Act, 1929, s. 185, and LIQUIDATOR

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Married women's property

real and personal, present and future, to her husband absolutely, so that he might sell, pay his debts out of, give

Workmen's Compensation Act

Compensation Act, 1925 [15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 84), s. 1 (1)] The compensation is not damages for negligence or

King's Bench

Queen's bench (so called because the King used formerly to sit there in person (though the judges determined the causes), the

Shelley's case, Rule in

Shelley's case, Rule in. intimately connected with the quantity of estate

Queen's Bench Division

over tort and contract actions, applications for judicial review, and some Magistrate-court appeals, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1259. The

Lord Mayor's Court in London

Court the recorder presided, or, in his absence, the common serjeant (s. 43), or the assistant judge appointed under the Borough … powers enlarged by the Mayor's Court of London Procedure Act, 1857. In this Court the recorder presided, or, in his absence,

Acknowledgement of a wife's assurance

1st January, 1925 [see (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 167], a woman married before 1883 disposed of her estate

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