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Railway
with intent to avoid payment is punishable by fine up to 40s. or in the case of a second conviction either by a fine not exceeding 20l., or in the discretion of the court by imprisonment for … Act, 1911, as amended, and Railways Act, 1921, s. 8. As to the protection of rolling stock from distress and execution, see ROLLING STOCK. Electrical Power.-The (English) Railways (Electrical Power) Act, 1903, as amended, 'facilitates the introduction
Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English)
& 5 Geo. 5, c. 78), was the first of such Acts: it restricted the right to levy distress or resume possession of property by landlords and of mortgagees to foreclose or realize their security. This Act … housing. See those titles. In substance the (English) Rent Restriction Acts now affect houses which were erected before 2nd April, 1919, and now called 'Class B' houses, of which either the rent or the rate able value
Winding-up
the status of its members is void unless the Court otherwise orders (s. 173); and every attachment, sequestration, distress or execution if made after commencement is void undr s. 174; no action or proceeding shall be proceeded … joint-stock companies. The property of a company is collected and distributed firstly in discharge of its liabilities, and secondly, among its members according to their respective rights with a view to its dissolution. If the assets are
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Magna Carta
Wards in 1645. So perfectly hopeless was the renewal of this oppressive system at the restoration of the second Charles, that the provision annihilating these feudal tenures, contained in the statute 12 Car. 2, c. 24, simply … ports, and all other ports, shall have all their liberties and free customs.' The 10th chapter prohibits excessive distress for more service for a knight's fee than was due, all which has been abolished. The 11th chapter
Adverse possession
Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 57), which provides that no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover any land or rent, but within twelve years next after the time … of a leasehold term when dispossession of the lessee is not necessarily inconsistent with the reversioner's rights, and secondly, the person setting up dispossession may have been holding under the rightful owner's title, e.g., trustees, guardians, bailiffs
warrant
[dis-pə-ze-sə-rē-] : a warrant issued to evict someone (as a lessee) from real property used esp. in Georgia distress warrant : a warrant ordering the distress of property and specifying which items of property are to be
Notice to quit
after the expiration of a notice to quit it is a waiver of that notice, and giving a second notice to quit generally amounts to waiver of a notice previously given. If a landlord have given a … been given a notice, contumaciously wilfully holds over, and becomes liable for double rent according to the (English) Distress for Rent Act, 1737 (1 Geo. 2, c. 19), s. 18. Where a lessee holds under a void
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