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One more than sixteen ten and seven added as seventeen years...
child tax credit
child tax credit A tax credit available to people with children under the age of seventeen. ...
Cicada
Any species of the genus Cicada or of the family Cicadidae They are large hemipterous insects with nearly transparent wings The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen consisting of a pair of stretched membranes acted upon by powerful muscles A noted American species Cicada septendecim is called the seventeen year locust Another common species is the dogday cicada...
Quillwort
Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four tubed rushlike leaves rising from a corm and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases There are about seventeen American species usually growing in the mud under still shallow water So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves...
Betting
Betting. For definition and for s. 18 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 109), see WAGER.Bets are irrecoverable at law by virtue of s. 18 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1845, and the (English) Gaming Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 9). The latter statute gets rid of the decision in Real v. Anderson, (1884) 13 QBD 779; and see Tatam v. Reeve, (1893) 1 QB 44; and De Mattos v. Benjamin, (1894) 70 LT 560. In the case of a cheque given in payment of a gaming transaction the combined effect of s. 1 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1710 (9 Anne, c. 14), and ss. 1 and 2 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1835, was that if it was paid to any indorsee or holder, the amount so paid could be recovered by the drawer from the payee, Dey v. Mayo, (1920) 2 KB 346; Sutters v. Briggs, (1922) 1 AC 1. The Gaming Act, 1922, does away with this position.The (English) Betting Act, 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 119)--as to which see Reg. v. Brown, (1895) 1 QB 119--elaborately provides for suppressing of houses, rooms...
Children
Children. The word child in legal documents means a legitimate child unless otherwise declared by statute. See Morris v. Britannic Assurance Co., 1931 (2) KB 125. 'Child' is defined by the (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 107, as meaning, for the purposes of the Act, a person under fourteen years of age. The (English) Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 47), makes provisions for Scotland similar to those of the corresponding English Act.Registration of Birth, and Vaccination.--It is the duty, by s. 1 of the (English) Births and Deaths Registration act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 88), of the father and mother of very child born alive, and in their default of other persons (see BIRTHS), to give information to the registrar within forty two days; the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, ss. 2 and 3, provides for compulsory notification of births to the Medical Officer of Health (see BIRTHS), and the child must be vaccinat...
Civil Law
Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law.The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to that which the Romans complied from the laws of nature and nations.The 'Roman Law'and the 'Civil Law' are convertible phrases, meaning the same system of jurisprudence; it is now frequently denominated 'the Roman Civil Law.'The collections of Roman Civil Law, before its reformation in the sixth century of the Christian era by the eastern Emperor Justinian, were the following:--(1) Leges Regi'. These laws were for the most part promulgated by Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Servius Tullius. To Romulus are ascribed the formation of a constitutional government, and the imposition of a fine, instead of death, for crimes; Numa Pompilius composed the laws relating to religion and divine worship, and abated the rigour of subsisting laws; and Servius Tullius, the sixth king,...
Firearms
Firearms. This word comprises all sorts of guns, fowling-pieces, blunderbusses, pistols, etc. Their discharge in a street is penal.A weapon that expels a projected (such as ballets or pallets) by combustion of gunpowder or other explosive, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.For the purposes of the (English) Fire Arms Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 43), 'firearm' means 'any lethal firearm or other weapon of any description from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged, or any part thereof, and the expression 'ammunition' means ammunition for any such firearms, and includes grenades, bombs, and other similar missiles, whether such missiles are capable of use with a firearm or not. The (English) Firearms Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 16), amends the definition by including smoothbore shot gun, air gun, or air rifle and ammunition, if deemed a lethal weapon. A person under seventeen shall not purchase or hire, nor shall anyone sell to such person, a firearm or ammunition. A pe...
Hawkers and pedlars
Hawkers and pedlars, persons who carry their goods from place to place for sale. In 1810 (50 Geo. 3, c. 41), imposed a licence duty on them and made various provisions in regard to their trade. After many amending Acts (see, e.g., 52 Geo. 3, c. 108, 26 & 27 Vict. c. 18, Sched. B, 22 & 23 Vict. c. 36) the (English) Hawkers Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 33), has regulated the business of hawkers, defining, for the purposes of the Act, a hawker as a person who travels about selling or exposing samples with a horse or other beast bearing or drawing burden, the Pedlars Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 96), for regulating the business of peddlers, having already defined a peddler for the purposes of that Act as a person traveling about selling or procuring orders for goods or selling his skill in handicraft, without a horse, etc. see Woolwich Local Board v. Gardiner, (1895) 2 QB 497.A hawker's licence costs 2l. a year, and except by way of renewal of a licence for the year immediately preceding, is...
Infant Settlements Act, 1855
Infant Settlements Act, 1855 (English) (18 & 19 Vict. c. 43), preserved by the Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 27(3), but so that a legal estate in land is not vested in an infant. By virtue of the Act of 1855 every infant (if a male of twenty, or if a female of seventeen years, s. 4, and see Re Phillips, (1887) 34 Ch D 467), upon or in contemplation of marriage, may, with the sanction of the Chancery Division of the High Court, make a valid settlement or contract for a settlement of property. The Act gets rid entirely of the disability arising from infancy, though not of disability on any other ground, Seaton v. Seaton, (1888) 13 App Cas 61. Consult Seton on Judgments: Dan. Ch. Pr...
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