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Vagrants

maintain her bastard child, being able so to do, whereby it becomes chargeable to any parish or union. Secondly. Rogues and Vagabonds.-The following are, by the Vagrancy Act, 1824, s. 4 as amended by the (English) Vagrancy

Usury

is a certain benefit which is received for the use of a thing (or of money) lent; but, secondly, to hope for a certain return at the option of the party who borrowed, this is not vicious.)

Uses

Uses (History). A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The Common Law treated the actual possessor for all purposes as the owner of the property. It...

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The agreement

agreement with a foreign buyer and not the agreement with a local party containing a covenant to export. Secondly, and more importantly, the user of the definite article 'the' before the word 'agreement' is, in our view,

Rent

nature--first, as some-thing issuing out of the land, as a compensation for the possession during the term; and secondly, as an acknowledgment made by the tenant to the lord of his fealty or tenure. It must always

Sweinmote, Court of

Court was first to inquire into the oppressions and grievances committed by the officers of the forests; and secondly, to receive and try presentments, certified from the court of attachments, against offenders in vert and venison, 4

Possession

firstly the element of consciousness or knowledge of that possession in the person charged with such offence and secondly where he has not the actual physical possession, he has nonetheless a power or control over that weapon

Obligation

is the vinculum juris, or bond of legal necessity, which binds together two or more determinate individuals ........ Secondly, the term obligation is in law the name, not merely of the duty, but also of the correlative

Merchant shipping

to Merchant Shipping have been twice consolidated: first, in 1854, by 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104; and, secondly, in 1894, by the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), which contains 748

Immediate purpose

remoteness of purpose. The expression must be understood as a directly connected and timely purpose, and not a secondly or remote or premature purpose. Significantly, the clause does not stay 'for the purpose of immediately demolishing', which

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