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Shelley's case, Rule in. intimately connected with the quantity of estate which a tenant may hold in realty, is the antique feudal doctrine generally known as the rule in Shelley's Case, which is reported by Lord Coke in 1 Rep. 93 b (23 Eliz.in C.B.), and elaborately examined by Lord Macnaghten in Van Grutten v. Foxwell, 1897 AC 658.The rule has been abolished by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 131, in the construction of all instruments coming into operation after 1925; but the rule governs the construction of all instruments which have come into operation before the 1st January, 1926.The rule may be described thus: Where a life free-hold, either legal or equitable in realty (whether of freehold or copyhold tenure), is limited by any assurance to a person, and by the same assurance the inheritance of the same quality, i.e., either legal or equitable, is limited by way of remainder (with or without the interposition of any other estate) to his heirs or the heirs of his body...
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 Lloyd's Coffee House in the City of London. From these meetings arose the present association of underwriters, which is famous throughout the world as a centre of marine insurance. Shipping intelligence of all kinds is collected by Lloyd's agents all over the world and forwarded to London. Signal stations have been established under the provisions of (English) Lloyd's Signal Station Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 29). Derelict ships have to be reported to Lloyd's (Derelict Vessels (Report) Act,1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 12)). 'Lloyd's List' thus forms a record of shipping news of great importance to the commercial community. Lloyd's Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. xxi.), incorporates and regulates Lloyd's. Besides marine insurance, almost any risk can be covered there, and by the Assurance Companies Act,1909 (9 Edw. 7, c. 49), ss. 28 and 33, members of Lloyd'...
Occupier's Liability Notice
Occupier's Liability Notice, the notice which the owner of land out of which tithe rent-charge issues is required, by sub-s. 6 of s. 2 of the Tithe Act, 1891, to give to the owner of the tithe rent-charge of the liability of the occupier of the land, under a contract made before the Act, to pay such tithe rent-charge to such owner of land. Unless this notice (which is styled an 'occupier's liability notice' by r. 3 of the Tithe Rent-charge Recovery Rules, 1891) is served as required by the Tithe Act, 1891, the landowner may not recover from the occupier any sum which he has paid for tithe rent-charge, without a certificate from the County Court 'that there was good and sufficient cause for the failure to give such notice, and that the occupier has not been prejudiced thereby.' For form of notice, see Thring's Tithe Act, 1891 p. 58, and now, generally, the (English) Tithe Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 43), s. 20(3) (Transitional Provisions)....
Queen's Bench
Queen's Bench, means historically, the highest common-law court in England, presided over by the reigning monarch. The jurisdiction of this court now lies with the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice; when a king begins to reign, the name automatically changes 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....
Keating's (Sir H.S.) Act
Keating's (Sir H.S.) Act, (English) for summary procedure on bills of exchange (18 & 19 Vict. c. 67). Superseded by (English) R.S.C., Ord. III., r. 6, and repealed (with savings for inferior courts by s. 7) by the Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act, 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 49), writs under it having been done away with by R.S.C., Ord. II., r. 6. It has been repealed as regards the County Court by the (English) County Courts Act, 1919....
Michael Angelo Taylor's Act (English)
Michael Angelo Taylor's Act (English) (57 Geo. 3, c. xxix.) (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Metropolis'), for better paving and regulating the streets of the Metropolis, partly superseded by the (English) Metropolis Management Acts, and the (English) Public Health (London) Acts, which repeal 'as from the coming into operation of any bye-law made for the like object,' s. 73 and other ss. of M.A. Taylor's Act, but leaves unrepealed s. 73 of the (English) Metropolis Management Act, 1862, which incorporates M.A. Taylor's Act, so far as in force and not inconsistent with the Act of 1862 and the Acts recited therein....
Equity to a settlement (Wife's)
Equity to a settlement (Wife's). Prior to the Married Women's Property Acts (see MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY), the law permitted a husband to possess himself absolutely of the whole of his wife's personal property and the rents and profits, during the coverture, of her realty; the consequence of which was that the wife, however great her fortune, might be left destitute. Whenever, therefore, he or any person claiming in his right was obliged to come into a Court of Equity for the recovery of the wife's property, the Court, as the price of its assistance, required him to make a settlement of some portion of it in favour of the wife and her children, the rule being to settle one-half in ordinary cases, but the whole if the husband were insolvent or had deserted his wife or there had been a dissolution of marriage on the ground of his adultery, Barrow v. Barrow, (1854) 5 De GM&G 782; Morgan v. Morgan, (1854) 2 Eq Rep 1270. The (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1882, by leaving a wife's...
fiance(e)s of u.s. citizen
fiance(e)s of u.s. citizen A nonimmigrant alien coming to the United States to conclude a valid marriage with a U.S. citizen within ninety days after entry. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
King's Counsel
King's Counsel, barristers appointed counsel to the Crown, and called within the Bar. They answer in some measure to the advocates of the revenue, advocati fisci, among the Romans. They must not be employed against the Crown without special licence, which is not refused unless the Crown desires to be represented by the individual in the case. Each King's Counsel had a small salary, but it is not so now. Under 13 & 14 Vict. c. 25 (repealed by (English) Stat. Law Rev. Act, 1875), they might act as judges of assize when named in the commission, and may, and often do, act as such judges, as being 'persons usually named in the commission' under s. 29 of the (English) Jud. Act, 1873, and being expressly authorised so to be named by s. 37 of that Act. See now (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 70; see ADVOCATES, FACULTY OF....
Ragman's-roll, or Ragimund's-roll
Ragman's-roll, or Ragimund's-roll, a roll, called from one Ragimund, or Ragimont, a legate in Scotland, who, summoning all the beneficed clergymen in that kingdom, caused them on oath to give in the true value of their benefices, according to which they were afterwards taxed by the Court of Rome.The term Ragman's-toll also means the list of the barons and men of note who subscribed the submission to Edward I. in 1296, and which was delivered up to the Scots in 1328 (Scott's History of Scotland. Vol. i. p. 162)....
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