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Home Dictionary Name: s 296 Page: 14Sheriff's Court in London
Sheriff's Court in London. See CITY OF LONDON....
Deponent's own knowledge
Deponent's own knowledge, the expression is wide enough to comprehend the knowledge of the assessee derived from a perusal of the relevant documents. Dwarkanath Hindu Undivided Family v. I.T.O., AIR 1966 SC 81: (1965) 3 SCR 536. [Allahabad High Court Rules of Court; 1952 Ch. XXII and R. 1(2)]...
Yelverton's Act (English)
Yelverton's Act (English). An Act of the Irish Parliament (21 & 22 Geo. 3, c. 48), extending the principle of ' Poynings' Act ' (which see) to private estate Acts and shipping Acts....
Wild's case, Rule in
Wild's case, Rule in. A devise to B. and his children or issue, B. having no issue at the time of the devise, gives him an estate-tail; but if he have issue at the time, B. and his children may, upon construction, take joint estates for life, 6 Rep. 16 b; Tud. L.C. on Real Property, 2nd Edn. 542, 581.The rule did not apply to personalty; see Audsley v. Horn, (1858) 26 Beav 195: 1 De GF&J 226; 2 Jarm. on Wills; Theobald on Wills.The rule has apparently been abolished in regard to wills coming into operation after 1925. See TAIL...
Wife's equity to a settlement
Wife's equity to a settlement. See EQUITY TO A SETTLEMENT...
Widow's Chamber
Widow's Chamber. In London the widow of a freeman was, by the custom of the city, entitled to her apparel and the furniture of her bed-chamber, but this custom was abolished by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 94....
Van Diemen's Land
Van Diemen's Land. See TASMANIA....
Turner's (Sir George) Act
Turner's (Sir George) Act (English) (13 & 14 Vict. c. 35), providing for the statement of a special case inequitable matters, abolished by Rule of Court in 1880. See SPECIAL CASE....
Traitor's Gate
Traitor's Gate, the river gate of the Tower of London by which traitors, and state prisoners generally, were committed to the Tower, Oxf. Dict...
Talfourd's Act
Talfourd's Act. (English) (1) The (repealed) Copyright Act, 1842. See COPYRIGHT.(2) Giving a mother the custody of children under seven; 2 & 3 Vict. c. 54, repealed and replaced by 35 & 36 Vict. c. 12, which extends the age to sixteen. See INFANT....
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