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Chambers are quasi-private rooms, in which the judges or masters dispose of points of practice and other matters not sufficiently important to be heard and argued in court. See SUMMONS; ORDER.The jurisdiction of a judge in chambers depends partly on Statutes and partly on the Common Law. An appeal lies to a Divisional Court or to a judge sitting in court according to the practice of the Division of the High Court to which the matter in question in assigned (English) (Jud. Act, 1873, s. 50. See now Jud. Act, 1925, ss. 31(8) and 62). By R. S.C. 1883, Ord. LIV., the masters in the King Bench Division, and the registrars in the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division may exercise the jurisdiction of a judge in chambers (subject to appeal to a judge), except in matters relating to crime or to the liberty of the subject, and certain other matters setout in the order. As to Chambers in the Chancery Division, see Ord. LV....

Feoffment

Feoffment [fr. feoffare, to give a feud,] the transfer of freehold land, in ancient times, by word of mouth and livery of seisin, i.e., by the delivery to the transferee of corporal possession of the land or tenement; see 2 Bl. Com. 310. Writing and deed (theretofore having become gradually more usual) were successively required by the (English) Statute of Frauds (29 Car. 2, c. 3, s. 1), and the (English) Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 3; and by s. 2 of the latter Act, all real property, as regards conveyance of the immediate freehold thereof, is transferable as well by grant as by livery, so that a transfer by deed alone is all that is necessary, and transfer by livery, though not in terms abolished, became obsolete before the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 51, which declares that all lands and interests therein lie in grant and are incapable of being conveyed by livery or by livery and seisin, or by feoffment, and by s. 52 all conveyances of land or any int...

Liquidator

Liquidator. A person appointed to conduct the winding-up of a company under the (English) Companies Act, 1929. Liquidators are of three kinds:--(1) Appointed by the court in a winding-up by the Court. pending appointment the Official Receiver in Bankruptcy is to act as Official Receiver and Liquidator in the winding-up (s. 185). By s. 186, in England, liquidators other than the Official Receiver must provide security to the satisfaction of the Board of Trade. His duties comprise the collection of the company's property, and this property or any part of it may vest in him on his application. He may bring or defend actions relating to that property in his own official name (s. 190). Powers which he may exercise subject to the sanction of the court or a Committee of Inspection are setout in s. 191(1); sub-s. (2) of that section gives a list of powers for which such sanction is not required. The duties of a liquidator are to collect, administer, and distribute the assets, having regard to ...

Marriage

Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in a foreign country complies with these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to English law, Nachimson v. Nachimson, 1930, P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an i...

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