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Lyndhurst's (Lord) Act (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 54) rendered marriages within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity absolutely null and void. Theretofore such marriages were voidable merely. See MARRIAGE....

Freemen's Roll

Freemen's Roll, a list of all persons admitted burgesses or freemen in respect of those rights which were reserved by the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 76), as distinguished from the burgesses newly created by the Act, and entitled to the rights which it confers, who are entered on the burgess-roll. See (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 259-265....

Fox's Act

Fox's Act, 32 Geo. 3, c. 60 [the (English) Libel Act, 1792], which secured to juries, upon indictments for libel, the right of pronouncing a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter in issue, and no longer bound them to find a verdict of guilty on proof of the publication of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the sense ascribed to it in the indictment. See LIBEL. Consult Odgers on Libel....

Fastens or Fastern's E'en, or even

Fastens or Fastern's E'en, or even [fr. vastal-abend, low Sax.], Shrove-Tuesday, the succeeding day being Ash-Wednesday, the first of the Lenten fast....

F.C.S

F.C.S., in documents relating to policies of marine insurance these letters stand for the words 'free of capture and seizure.'...

Duke of Exeter's daughter

Duke of Exeter's daughter, a rack in the Tower, so called after a minister of Henry VI., who sought to introduce it into this country...

Lord's Day

Lord's Day. See SUNDAY....

Pit's mouth value

Pit's mouth value, is indicative of value of mineral at the mouth of a pit, R.B. Bajpai v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (1968) Jab LJ 658: (1968) MPLJ 267: (1968) MPWR 504....

Lyon's Inn

Lyon's Inn, an Inn of Chancery. See INNS OF CHANCERY...

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God's acre

Lyndhurst's (Lord) Act