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Bill of Rights

Bill of Rights, a declaration delivered by the Lords and Commons to the Prince and Princess of Orange, and afterwards enacted in Parliament, when they became King and Queen, as 1 W. & M., sess. 2,...

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...

Clauses irritant and resolutive

Clauses irritant and resolutive, clauses devised for limiting the right of an absolute proprietor, and making effectual the conditions imposed on him, which otherwise would infer no more than a personal obligation, ineffectual against creditors or...

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Customary freeholds

Customary freeholds have been converted into 'socage tenure' by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922, s. 189, see COPYHOLD. Owing to its historical intrest the following note has been preserved unaltered from the previous edition...

Successive

Successive, means whole series including the first of it. It means in the singular substantive, something which follows another thing of the same kind, Ram Kumar Rajendra Swaroop v. CST, (1967) 19 STC 241: 1996 All...

Mirror des justices

Mirror des justices. This singular work has raised much doubt and difference of opinion concerning its antiquity. Some have pronounced it older than the Conquest, others have ascribed it to the time of Edward II. This...

Nomen collectivum

Nomen collectivum, a singular noun of multitude.

Original Charter

Original Charter is one by which the first grant of land is made. On the other hand, a charter by progress is one renewing the grant in favour of the heir or singular successor of the...

Package or parcel

Package or parcel, means the singular and not the plural, and it contemplates each individual 'parcel' or 'package', Radha Krishna Nathani v. Union of India, AIR 1957 Pat 231: (1957) Pat LR 63.

Passive trust

Passive trust, a trust as to which the trustee has no active duty to perform. Passive uses were resorted to before the Statute of Uses, in order to escape from the trammels and hardships of the...

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