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Judicial review
judge under certain conditions (CPC, 1908, s. 114) Judicial Review, is the power of the court to review statutes or administrative acts and determine their constitutionality. The examination of Federal and State Legislative Statutes and the acts
Lottery
or chance, Taylor v. Smetten, (1883) 11 QBD 207. By 10 & 11 Wm. 3, c. 17, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Games,' all lotteries were declared to be public nuisances, and all grants, patents, or licences for the
Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923
Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923 (English) (13 & 14 Geo. 5, cc. 9 and 25). By a series of statutes commencing with the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1875, statutory compensation has been provided for an outgoing agricultural tenant in
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Revive
Revive, to make oneself liable for a debt barred by the Statute of Limitations by acknowledging it; or for a matrimonial offence once condoned by committing another. The legal effect
Retrospective statutes
Retrospective statutes, means 'a statute is to be deemed to be retrospective, which takes away or impairs any vested right
Retrospective
Retrospective, 'retrospective' in relation to statutes etc. means 'operative with regard to past time'. The change effected does not say that it shall be
Resulting use
original grantor, for it cannot be supposed that the estate was intended to be given away, and the statute immediately transferred the legal estate to such resulting use. The Statute of Uses has been repealed by the
Representation
or extrinsic evidence, even if the contract to which it is collateral must be in writing under the Statute of Frauds or otherwise, if the principal or written contract is wholly silent on the subject, De Lassalle
Quit rent
and free of all other services, 2 Bl. Com. 42. As no manor has been created since the statute Quia Emptores (see MANOR; QUIA EMPTORES), every quit rent must have become first payable at a date prior
Provision
Provision, a provision is a distinct rule or principle of law in a statute which governs the situation covered by it. So an incomplete idea, even though stated in the form of
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