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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 Many of these statutes were consolidated by 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 66, repealed and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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