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Subject to surveyor's report
report, it is perfectly well-understood in the business of sale and purchase of houses, that, when a person says that he will buy 'subject to surveyor's report, although he agrees to everything else, what it means is
bequeath
bequeath [Old English becwethan to speak to, address, leave by will, from be- to, about + cwethan to say] : to give by will used esp. of personal property but sometimes of real property ; see also
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perjury
material matter) while under oath or bound by an affirmation or other officially prescribed declaration that what one says, writes, or claims is true compare false swearing
House of Commons
repealed in 1856 by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 64. The common law right to 'wages,' which Coke says had existed 'time out of mind,' was enforceable by writs to sheriffs, but has not been enforced since
Parliament, the Imperial
The word is generally considered to be derived from the French parler, to speak. 'It was first applied,' says Blackstone, 'to general assemblies of the state, under Louis VII., in France, about the middle of the twelfth
Political offence
into a discussion as to what are political offences except in a sketchy way. It is sufficient to say that politics are about government and therefore, a political offence is one committed with the object of changing
On the occasion of
equivalent to 'on the same date as'. An 'occasion is not a period of 24 hours.' If we say that a man took out an insurance policy on the occasion of his marriage we do not mean
Oath
New Testament, or, in the case of a Jew, the Old Testament, in his uplifted hand, and shall say or repeat after the officer administering the oath the words 'I swear by Almighty God that ........... ,'
Civil war
Civil war, is a war which has the special characteristic of being civil, that is to say internal rather than external. A decision on whether such a war exists generally involves a consideration of (1)
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