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Surveyor

when the ss. of that Act (of which many ss. relating to Crown debts are still upon the Statute Book) relating to the Court were repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act, 1863.

Payment of Money into Court

at a compromise. No such plea was known to the Common Law; it is entirely the creature of Statute (Odgers on Pleading). By the (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 70, the defendant in all actions (except for

Year

January in and after 1752 by the Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750 (24 Geo. 2, c. 23) (Chitty's Statutes, tit. ' Time '), but as appears from the preamble to that statute, the 1st of January had

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Warranty

does not differ from any other contractual promise. A warranty may be express or implied by law or statute. For instances of implied warranties, see that title, CAVEAT EMPTOR, TITLE, COVENANTS FOR, and infra. Implied warranties have

Unclaimed property

no similar provision in Table A to the Acts of 1908 and 1929. Dividends are barred by the Statute of Limitations at the end of twenty years [Re Artisans, etc., Corporation, (1904) 1 Ch 796]. No period

Ultra vires

(1921) 1 Ch 392. On the other hand, a cor-poration or company which is created by or under statute cannot do anything at all unless authorized expressly or impliedly by the statute or instrument defining its powers.

Tenure

or little. At last these military tenures, together with all their grievances, were destroyed at the Restoration. The statute 12 Car. 2, c. 24, enacted that the Court of award and liveries, and all wardships, liveries, primer

Surrender

surrender or to, and into, that of the surrenderee. By the combined operation of s. 3 of the Statute of Frauds, and the (English) Real Property Act, 1845, s. 3, now replaced by ss. 51 to 55

Sewer

Crown, and later at the discretion of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, and Chief Justices, pursuant to the Statute of Sewers (23 Hen. 8, c. 5). Their jurisdiction is to overlook the repairs of the banks and

Sumptuary laws

Sumptuary laws, those in restraint of luxury, excess in apparel, etc., as the Statute of Nottingham (10 Edw. 3, stat. 3), de cibariis utendis, repealed by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 64.

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