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Debtor's petition

Debtor's petition, means a bankruptcy petition presented by the debtor himself under s. 264(1)(b) of Insolvency Act, 1986 (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England 3(2), para 150, p. 90....

Deceased wife's sister or deceased brother's widow

Deceased wife's sister or deceased brother's widow. See MARRIAGE (prohibited degrees)....

Denarii S. Petri (commonly called Peter's Pence), an annual payment on St. Peter's feast of a penny from every family to the pope, while the Roman Catholic religion was established. Abolished by 25 Hen. 8, c. 21....

King's printer

King's printer has the liberty of printing the Bible, Prayer Book, Statutes, and Acts of State, to the exclusion of all other presses, except those of the two universities, and by 56 & 57 Vict. c. 66, all (English) Statutory Rules. By the Evidence Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c.113), s. 3, all copies of private, local, and personal Acts of Parliament, not public Acts, if purported to be printed by the Queen's printers, and all copies of the journals of either House of Parliament, and of royal proclamations purporting to be printed by the printers to the Crown, or by the printers to either House of Parliament, or by any or either of them, shall be admitted as evidence thereof by all Courts, etc., without any proof being given that such copies were so printed, and see 45 & 46 Vict. c. 9, and 7 Edw. 7, c. 16, as to colonial and dominion Acts and Orders....

King's proctor

King's proctor, the proctor or solicitor representing the Crown in the Probate and Divorce Court. In proper cases it is his duty to intervene in petitions for dissolution or for declaration of nullity of marriage to defeat collusion or the suppression of material facts. In his official capacity he cannot intervene to show cause against a decree nisi for dissolution of marriage being made absolute without the leave of the Court, Gray v. Gray, (1861) 30 LJP&M 96. In the case of an unsuccessful intervention the King's Proctor may be condemned in costs, Carter v. Carter, 1910 P. 151. See (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 181....

King's widow

King's widow, a widow of the King's tenant-in-chief, who was obliged to take oath in Chancery that she would not marry without the King's leave....

King's evil

King's evil, scrofula, formerly supposed to be cured by the King touching the sufferer and hanging round his neck a white ribbon to which was fastened a gold coin; for an account of the ceremony of 'touching,' see Macaulay's Hist. Of England, ch. xiv....

S.P.,

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

Knight's fee

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....

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