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Apta viro
Apta viro (of a woman), marriageable, i.e., in strict law at 12 years of age. Also used in the sense of ability on the part of the
Brooke's (Sir Robert) abridgement
1568, and an improvement on the plan of Statham and Fitzherbert. The cases are here arranged with more strict regard to the title; but the order in which they are strung together is very little better, being
Scrutinous
Closely examining or inquiring careful strict
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Rigorous
Manifesting exercising or favoring rigor allowing no abatement or mitigation scrupulously accurate exact strict severe relentless as a rigorous officer of justice a rigorous execution of law a rigorous definition or demonstration
Next presentation
The sale of next presentations is now abolished and the transfer of rights of patronage of a benefice strictly regulated by the Benefices Act,1898, and the rules made thereunder, and further restricted by the (English) Benefices Act,1898
Minor
of age. There is no legal distinction between a minor in this sense and an infant. See INFANT. Strictly speaking, in Scotland a minor is a person between the ages of pupilarity and majority--in males from fourteen
Marriage
made more common the action of breach of promise of marriage, which is of comparatively modern date. The strictness of Lord Hardwicke's Act led to marriages being annulled through misnomers in the banns by the fault of
Merits, affidavit of
is to be read in a technical sense, and is not to be understood to be confined to strictly moral and conscientious defences; and defences of the Statute of Frauds or Limitations, and of Bankruptcy and Infancy,
Opinion
by counsel upon facts submitted to him. See DICTUM as to opinions expressed by judges which are not strictly relevant to the issue before them. The word 'opinion' in s. 50 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872,
Necessaries
Necessaries, a relative term, not strictly limited to such things as are absolutely requisite for support and subsistence, but to be construed liberally, and
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