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Home Dictionary Name: sergeant Page: 2 Page 2 of about 15 results (0.002 seconds)Sequestration
Sequestration. This is a prerogative process (formerly confined to the Court of Chancery and the Courts of Probate and Divorce), addressed to certain commissioners empowering them to enter upon real estates, and sequester the rents, and upon the goods, chattels, and personal estate of a person in contempt for disobedience of a decree or order, and keep the same until the defendant clear his contempt. It has no return, and is granted upon a return of non est inventus by the sergeant-at-arms, or by a sheriff on an attachment, 1 Eq. Rep. 261. See R.S.C. Ord. XLIII., r. 6. It is the mode of enforcing an order against a corporation in the case of the ordr having been 'wilfully disobeyed.' See R.S.C. Ord. XLII., r. 31, and Stancomb v. Trowbridge Urban Council, (1910) 2 Ch 190....
Sunday
Sunday [fr. sunnan daeg, Sax., the day of the sun], the first day of the week, the Lord's Day, termed in the Sunday Observance Act, 1677 (29 Car. 2, c. 7, infra), 'the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday.' It is a dies non juridicus, but an arrest for crime can be effected on this day; and bail can arrest their principal, and a sergeant-at-arms can apprehend; but no other law proceedings can be taken. By the Sunday Observance Act, 1677, it is enacted that:-No tradesmen, artificers, workmen, labourers, or other person whatsoever shall do or exercise any worldly labour, business, or work of their ordinary callings [barbers are not within the enactment: Palmer v. Snow, (1900) 1 QB 725] upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof (works of necessity and charity only excepted).The (English) Hairdressers and Barbers Shops (Sunday Closing) Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 35), prohibits opening on Sundays (Jewish hairdressers may open on Sunday but must close on Saturday).The (English) Shops (Sunday...
Unmarried
Unmarried, is a term of flexible meaning; prima facie it means 'never having been married,' but the context may show that it means 'not having a husband or wife', Re Sergeant, (1884) 26 Ch D 575; Blundell v. De Falbe, (1888) 57 LJCh 576.Means not re-married, AIR 1963 Cal 428 (429). (Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, s. 25)Not married; single, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Unmarried, means not married. Unmarried daughters under the Hindu law have got better claims on the 'stridhana' of the mother, Rajban v. Rahim Bux, (1969) ILR 1 All 633: (1969) All LJ 16: (1969) All WR (HC) 78....
Lawyer
One versed in the laws or a practitioner of law one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters It is a general term comprehending attorneys counselors solicitors barristers sergeants and advocates...
Honorary services
Honorary services, those incident to grand-serjeanty, and commonly annexed to some honour; services without emolument.Special Service rendered to the king by a person holding tenure of ground sergeants, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
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