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Preferential voting
primaries in which the voters are allowed to indicate on their ballots their preference usually their first and second choices between two or more candidates for an office so that if no candidate receives a majority of
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Deprivation
like, or for farming or trading contrary to law, after two former convictions for the same offence; or, secondly, in pursuance of divers penal statutes, which declare the benefice void, for some nonfeasance or neglect, or else … (Bishop) v. Henly, 1909, P. 319. A censure of deprivative is the removal of a person from any preferment which he holds and is qualification from holding any or any other preferment in the future except as
Winding-up
of the general creditors. Transactions which would be avoided against an individual in his bankruptcy as a fraudulent preference (Bankruptcy Act, 1914, s. 44, see FRAUDULENT PREFERENCE) are avoided by s. 265, the commencement of the winding-up … 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
Charities, or Public Trusts
& 16 Geo. 5, c. 27), the Trustees or Charitable Funds have become incorporated. See Tyssen's Charitable Bequests, 2nd Edn., and preceding title. … learning, free schools, and scholars of universities; repairsof bridges, ports, havens, causeways, churches, sea-banks, and highways; education and preferment of orphans; the relief, stock, or maintenance of houses of correction; marriages of poor maids; supportation, aid, and
Marriage
convicted for bigamy. But proof that the absent husband or wife was alive at the time of the second marriage will invalidate it. Persons who are divorced may marry again after the decree is made absolute. as … & 7 Wm. 4, c. 86), above referred to. Marriage can also be solemnized, if the parties so prefer, by the registrar alone, after notice and certificate of license, at the registrar's office, according to the form
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