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Pains and penalties, Bills of, Acts of Parliament to condemn particular persons for treason or felony, or to inflict pains and penalties beyond or contrary to the Common Law, to serve a special purpose. They are in fact new laws, made pro re nataa. It is an incident of such bills that persons who are to be affected by them are entitled by custom to be heard at the Bar of the House in person or by counsel. But on a bill to disfranchise the borough of St. Albans, this claim was disallowed....
College
College [fr. colligo, Lat., to bring to], a corporation, company, or society of men, having certain privileges and endowed with certain revenues, founded by royal license. An assemblage of several collages is called a University.'College' means a college maintained by, or admitted to the privileges of, the University. [Mizoram University Act, (8 of 2000), s. 2(e); (58 of 1994), s. 2(f)]An assembly of people, established by law to perform some special function or to promote some common purpose, vsu. of an educational, political, ecclesiastical, or scientific nature, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 258.Means a college or teaching institutions other than a University established or maintained by a person or group of persons from amongst a minority community. [National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions, 2004 (2 of 2005) s. 2(b)...
Brevet
Brevet, a commission conferring on an officer a degree of rank immediately above that which he holds in his particular regiment; without, however, conveying a power to receive the corresponding pay. Brevet rank does not exist in the royal navy, and in the army it neither descends lower than that of captain, nor ascends above that of lieutenant-colonel.French Law. A privilege or warrant granted by the Government to a private person, authorising a special benefit or the exercise of an exclusive privilege; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Jus qu'situm
Jus qu'situm, a select or special law....
Dissenters Chapels Act
Dissenters Chapels Act (7 & 8 Vict. c. 45), (statutory title, 'The (English) Nonconformist Chapels Act, 1844'), an Act passed in 1844 for the relief of Unitarians, though it applies to Nonconformists of every description. Its effect is to exclude, by a special law of limitation made for that express purpose, all inquiry into the conformity or otherwise of the doctrines taught or ritual practised in any chapel or meeting-house of any Non-conformist body, or the intentions of the founders by whom the building or its accessories or endowments were given, when such doctrines have been taught there, or such ritual practised, for the last twenty-five years; unless they are, in express terms, prohibited or excluded by some written instrument governing the foundation. The Act was passed inconsequence of the decision in what is commonly known as 'Lady Hewley's Case', Shore v. Wilson, (1842) 9 Cl&F 355, in which it was held by the House of Lords that Unitarian congregations, inspite of long and ...
Readiness and willingness of the tenant to pay
Readiness and willingness of the tenant to pay, the readiness and the willingness of the tenant to pay could be found only if he had complied with the provisions of the Act. The Act does not cover the case of a person who is unable to pay owing to want of means but is otherwise 'ready and willing.' Such a case in no doubt a hard one, but, unfortunately, it does not enable Courts to make a special law for such hard cases which fall outside the statutory protection, Mistry Premjibhai Vithaldas v. Ganeshbhai Keshavji, AIR 1977 SC 1707 (1711): (1977) 3 SCC 11. [Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodg-ing House Rates Control Act, (57 of 1947), s. 12(3)(a)]...
G man
A special law enforcement agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
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...
Copyhold
Copyhold. Tenure in copyhold has been abolished under the (English) L.P. Acts, 1922 and 1925, and the Amending Acts of 1924 and 1926, but the greater part of the former title on this subject has been retained verbatim in view of the importance of the subject in examining titles. In the previous edition of this work, copyhold was described as a base tenure founded upon immemorial custom and usage; its origin is undiscoverable, but it is said to be the ancient villeinage modified and changed by the commutation of base services into specified rents, either in money or money's worth.A copyhold estate is a parcel of the demesnes of a manor held at the lord's will, and according to the custom of such manor. The tenant may have the same quantities of interest in this tenure as he may enjoy in freeholds, as an estate in fee-simple or (by particular custom) fee-tail, or for life, and he may have only a chattel interest of an estate for years in it. By the custom of some manors, the estate devol...
Pawn or Pledge
Pawn or Pledge [fr. pignus, Lat.], a bailment of goods by a debtor to his creditor, to be kept till the debt is discharged.A mortgage of goods is in the Common Law distinguishable from a mere pledge or pawn. By a mortgage the whole legal title passes conditionally to the mortgagee; and if the goods be not redeemed at the stipulated time, the title becomes absolute at law although equity allows a redemption. But in a pledge, a special property only passes to the pledgee, the general property remaining in the pledgor. Also, in the case of a pledge, the right of a pledgee is not consummated, except by possession; and, ordinarily, when that possession is relinquished, the right of the pledgee is extinguished or waived. But, in the case of a mortgage of personal property the right of property passes by the conveyance to the mortgagee, and the possession is not or may not be essential to create or support the title.As to things which may be the subject of pawn: These are, ordinarily, goods a...
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