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Mortmain
upon alienation to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal, 2 Bl. Com. 268. By several old statutes, alienation of lands and tenements in mortmain, i.e., to religious and other corporations, which were supposed to hold
Misdemeanour
property on credit and not having paid for it within four months of bankruptcy, which are misdemeanours by statute; and any attempt to commit a felony or misdemeanour, whether the crime attempted be so by statute or
Confirmatio chartarum
Confirmatio chartarum, the 25 Edw. 1, A.D. 1297. This statute, being in the form of a charter, was sealed with the king's Great Seal, at Ghent, in Flanders,
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Petition of Right
a legislative enactment. With this view they framed a petition to the king, in which, after reciting various statutes by which their rights and privileges were recognized, they prayed the king 'that no man be compelled to
Bridge
a building erected across a river, ditch, valley, or other place, for the common benefit of travellers. The' Statute of Bridges' (22 Hen. 8, c. 5), (which see, with other statutes, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Highways (Bridges)'), provides
Water and watercourse
Co. Litt. 4 b. The (English) Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847, and the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1863 (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Water,' and Michael and Will on Gas and Water Supply), each of them consolidate in one Act
Treason
hear and determine, being in their places during their offices. The following species have been created by subsequent statutes:- If any person shall endeavour to deprive or hinder any person, being the next in succession to the
Sturges Bourne's Acts
Sturges Bourne's Acts. (English) (1) 58 Geo. 3, c. 69, the Vestries Act, 1818 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Vestries'), as to notice of vestries, qualification for vestry meetings, etc. (repealed as to rural parishes by
Snow
situate, to cause the same to be removed, by s. 26 of the (English) Highways Act, 1835: Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Highways.' Snow is included in the 'street refuse' which London sanitary authorities must, as far as reasonably
Scotland and Ireland
Act, 1706, is 6 Anne, c. 11, or 5 Anne, c. 8, and may be found in Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Union Acts,' and in the Revised Statutes. This Act confirms twenty-five Articles of Union, gives Scotland sixteen
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