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City's cash, the revenues derived from the corpora-tion's estates are usually known as 'city's cash', and are applied for charitable, educational, ceremonial and other purposes, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 29, para 60, p. 45....
Marshal of the Queen's bench
Marshal of the Queen's bench, an officer who had the custody of the Queen's Bench Prison. The 5 & 6 Vict. c. 22 abolished this office, and substituted an officer called Keeper of the Queen's Prison....
Scroop's Inn
Scroop's Inn, an obsolete law society, also called Serjeant's Place, opposite to St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, London...
On one's own account
On one's own account, means 'for one's own sake; on one's responsibility, American Express Bank Ltd. v. Calcutta Steel Co., (1993) 2 SCC 199 (209)....
Oswald's law hundred
Oswald's law hundred, an ancient hundred in Worcestershire, so called from Bishop Oswald, who obtained it from King Edgar to be given to St. Mary's Church in Worcester. It was exempt from the sheriff's jurisdiction, and comprehends 300 hides of land, Camd. Brit....
Owner's equity
Owner's equity, is the residual claim of the owners of the business on its assets after recognition of the liabilities of the business. Owner's equity repre-sents the amounts contributed by the owners to the business, plus the accumulated income of the business since its formation, less any amounts that have been distributed to the owners, Accounting and Finance for Lawyers in a Netshell, Charles H. Meyer, 4 (1995).Means the aggregate of the owners' financial interest in the assets of a business entity; the capital contributed by the owners plus any retained earnings. Also termed (in a corporation) shareholders' equity; stockholders' equity, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1131....
Queen's Remembrancer
Queen's Remembrancer, an officer on the revenue side of the Court of Exchequer. See the (English) Queen's Remembrancer Act, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 21), and the (English) Crown Suits Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 104). He became an officer of the Supreme Court by the (English) Jud. Act, 1873, s. 77....
S.S., Collar of
S.S., Collar of. Collars bearing these letters, or consisting of many of them linked together, have been much worn by persons holding great offices in the state, e.g., by the Lord Chief Justice of England. The signification is obscure...
Ship's papers
Ship's papers, documents required for the manifes-tation of the property of the ship and cargo, etc. See a list of them in Form No. 17, Appx. K, of the Rules of the Supreme Court, 1883.They are of two sorts: (1) those required by the law of a particular country, as the certificate of registry, licence, charter-party, bills of lading and of health, required by the law of England to be onboard all British ships; (2) those required by the law of nations to be onboard neutral ships, to vindicate their title to that character; they are the passport, sea-brief, or sea-letter, proofs of property, the muster-roll, or role d'equipage; the charter-party, the bills of lading and invoices, the log-book or ship's journal, and the bill of health, 1 Marshall on Insur., c. 9, s. 6....
Sheriff's Tourn or Rotation
Sheriff's Tourn or Rotation, a Court of record held twice every year, within a month after Easter and Michaelmas, before the sheriff, in different parts of the county, being indeed only the turn of the sheriff to keep a Court-leet in each respective hundred; this, therefore, was the great Court-leet of the county, as the county Court was the Court-baron; but the 'tourn,' which had been long obsolete, was expressly abolished by s. 18, sub-s. 4, of the Sheriffs Act, 1887....
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