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Provisor

should fall vacant should be bestowed, for an immediate payment by the provisor, on a particular person. Various statutes, called generally 'Statutes of Pro-visors,' were passed in ancient times to suppress such persons in 25 Hen. 8,

University

in Council. Reforms.-In 1854, by 17 & 18 Vict. c. 81, commissioners were appointed with powers to frame statutes for the better government, etc., of Oxford University, and the colleges therein; and in 1856, by 19 &

National insurance

particular question reference should be made to the Acts themselves and the regulations made thereunder; see also Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Insurance,' and Comyns Carr or Watts on National Insurance; and for a general outline of National Health

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Imprisonment

penal servitude, by the (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861, and other Acts set out in Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Criminal Law.' As to the right of any person convicted by a Court of Summary Jurisdiction to

Marginal note

'marginal notes are often conveniently appended to documents of any kind. The marginal notes which appear in the statute-books as printed by the King's Printers have not the authority of the legislature, and cannot alter the interpretation

Forgery

Edn., p. 661. Forgery at Common Law was a misdemeanour but most forgeries have been made felony by statute. Many of these statutes were consolidated by 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 66, repealed and

Arbitration

Common Law there was no mode of making the award binding. This defect was first cured by the statute 9 & 10 Wm. 3, c.15, which enabled parties to agree that a submission to arbitration might be

House of Commons

in point of law why any member might not still insist on payment of wages; and see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Parliament,' vol. ix. 246; Solicitors' Journal for February 25th, 1905; Law Times for November 11th, 1905. As

Information

in cases of intrusion, for trespasses on Crown lands; debt, for Crown moneys due upon breaches of penal statutes; and in rem, when any goods are supposed to become they property of the Crown, no one claiming

Insurance

has similar enactments as to assurances on lives 'or on any other event or events whatsoever'; see these statutes and the cases on them in Chitty's Statutes, tits. 'Insurance (Life and Accident)' and 'Insurance (Sea).' An attempt

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