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subrogate

subrogate -gat·ed -gat·ing [Latin subrogatus, past participle of subrogare surrogare to elect as a substitute, from sub- under + rogare to request] : to put in the place of another by the doctrine

proxy

as one's agent] 1 : the act or practice of a person serving as an authorized agent or substitute for another used esp. in the phrase by proxy 2 a : authority or power to act for

Oath

Parliament. By the (English) Promissory Oaths Act, 1868, a number of unnecessary oaths have been abolished, and declarations substituted. That Act also provides new forms of the Oath of Allegiance, Judicial Oath, and Official Oath to be

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Advertisement

the (English) Advertising Stations (Rating) Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 27). See STOLEN GOODS; REWARD; LIBEL; SUBSTITUTED SERVICE; SKY SIGN; and as to contract by acceptance of advertised offer, see Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Co.,

Service

appearance. By r. 2, service, when required, must be personal, unless an order for 'substituted service, or the substitution of notice for service,' be made personal service is effected by tendering a copy of the writ to

Legacy

as if a testator bequeath 1,000l. out of his Reduced Bank Three per Cents. And (4) Cumulative, or substitutional, when a testator by the same testamentary instrument, or by different testamentary instruments, has bequeathed more than one

Weights and measures

only, and otherwise increases the severity of the law; and an amending (English) Weights and Measures Act, 1904, substitutes for the power of the Board of Trade to disapprove of regulations of local authorities an initiative power

Vendor and Purchaser Act, 1874

December, 1874, and subject to any stipulation to the contrary in the contract, forty years was to be substituted for sixty years as the period of commencement of title which a purchaser may require, saving those cases

Value

amount of authority that can be quoted for it can make other than bad English. Mr. De Quincey substitutes the term 'exchange value,' which is unexceptionable, 1 Mill's Pol. Econ. 528, 578. The word 'value,' it is

Vaccination

schedule to this Act, or in a form to the like effect. The (English) Act of 1898 also substitutes six months [s. 1 (1)] for three as the period within which a child must be vaccinated, abolishes

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