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Solicitor

that of the client, not of the solicitor. Transactions between a solicitor and his client are subject to special scrutiny by the Hubbard, 1923 AC 673. S. 59 enacts that the remuneration of solicitors in contentious business … not practise before any justices for that county (see s. 54 of that Act). As to solicitors ('Law Agents') is Scotland, see the (English) Solicitors (Scotland) Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 21). As to

Deed

the latter. (l) Conditions, conditional limitations, provisos for cesser of interests, clauses of restraint, and for redemption, and special agreements, are generally next inserted, when stipulated for between the parties. (m) Powers; e.g., a power to lease. … be delivered to the other party or parties under the deed, though it may be delivered to an agent or solicitor acting for all parties in the matter of delivery. (8) The receipt-clause acknowledging the payment of

Constructive notice

to the freehold reversion upon a contract for the lease, a lessee who had omitted to make the special stipulation and was bound by the prohibition in the s., had intentionally shut his eyes to the freehold … arises, it has come to the knowledge of his counsel, as such, or of his solicitor or other agent, as such, or would have come to the knowledge of his solicitor or other agent, as such, if

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Notice to quit

upon the premises. This rule is to be invariably followed in all cases, except where there is some special agreement between the parties to a different effect, or where a particular local custom intervenes, or where the … from year to year, has authority to determine such tenancies by a regular notice to quit. A mere agent to receive rents has no implied authority to give a notice to quit, but an agent to receive

Consideration

impossible consideration. A contract may be illegal because it contravenes the principles of the Common Law, or the special requirements of a statute. The former illegality exists whenever the consideration is founded upon a transaction which violates … to be valued, Marren (Inspector of Taxes) v. Marriage, (1980) 3 All ER 95. May be a customs agent or forwarding agent who is insolvent or in liquidation. Or a consignee may be a bank, the directors

Tail

interest in tail, is an estate limited to a person and the heirs of his body general or special, male or female, and was the creature of the statute De Donis. The estate, if the entail be … against the wish of his father, the tenant for life, the legislature has introduced a reasonable but unaccountable agent, denominated 'the protector of the settlement,' who is, in many respects, but not in all (as will presently

Assignment

ed. P. 320. As to assignment of choses in action, see CHOSE. Assignment by Tenant for Life.-For a special meaning of the word, see Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 104. Means an assignment in writing by act … such leases and terms must be in writing and signed by the party to be charged or his agent. An assignment of a term must be of the whole term: the grant or conveyance of any lesser

Copyright

the civil remedies for infringement, see ss. 6-10; in certain cases a summary remedy is provided (ss. 11-13). Special provisions apply in the case of joint-authors (s. 16), posthumous works (s. 17), Government publications (s. 18), mechanical … by license, but any such assignment or grant must be in writing and signed by him or his agent [s. 5 (2)]; and there is a provision for the granting of compulsory licenses, after the death of

Landlord

as to include' any person who, for the time being, is entitled to receive or but for a special contract, would be entitled to receive the rent of any premises, whether or not on his own account. … his own account or on behalf of another or on behalf of himself and others or as an agent, trustee, executor, administrator, receiver or guardian or who would so receive the rent or be entitled to receive

Damage

contingent damages, continuing damages, double damages, excessive damages, exemplary damages, general damages, irreparable damages, pecuniary damages, prospective damages, special damages, speculative damages, substantial damages, unliquidated damages. But the essentials are (a) detriment to one by the wrong-doing … by breach of contract or acts of commission or omission on the part of the carrier or his agents or servants by reason of the negligent operation and management of the vessel, as, for example, when cargo

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