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Electoral franchise
Electoral franchise. (1) The qualifications entitling persons to vote at Parliamentary elections. A brief sketch of the changes up to 1884 in (a) Counties, and (b) Boroughs is as follows: (a) Originally the freeholders elected the...
Enticement
Enticement, means whoever takes or entices away any woman who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of any other man, from that man, or from any person having...
Executrix
Executrix, a woman appointed by a testator to perform his will. By the (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 75), s. 18, a married woman appointed an executrix may sue and...
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Free-bench
Free-bench [sedes libera, Lat.], a widow's dower out of copyholds to which she was entitled by the custom of some manors. It is regarded as an excrescence growing out of the husband's interest, and is indeed...
Protection order
Protection order, means an order made in term of section 18. [Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005, s. 2(o)] Protection Order. 1. A wife deserted by her husband may obtain from a magistrate or...
Insolvency
Insolvency, the state of one who has not property sufficient for the full payment of his debts. An insolvent, as distinguished from a bankrupt, was an insolvent who was not a trader: for until the passing...
Murder
Murder [fr. morthor, morthen, Sax.; murdrum, Low Lat.]. It is thus defined by Coke (3 Inst. 47): 'When a person of sound memory and discretion unlawfully killeth any reasonable creature in being, with malice aforethought, either...
Queen
Queen [fr. cwen, Sax., a wife], a woman who is sovereign of a kingdom. The queen regent, regnant, or sovereign is she who holds the Crown in her own right, and such queen of England has...
Recto de dote unde nihil habet
Recto de dote unde nihil habet, a writ of right of dower whereof she had nothing, which lay where her deceased husband, having divers lands or tenements, had assured no dower to his wife, and she...
Stridhan
Stridhan, a Hindu married woman is absolute owner of her 'stridhan' property and can deal with it in any manner she likes-she may spend the whole of it or give it away at her own pleasure...
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