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To call on for aid or protection to invite earnestly or solemnly to summon to address in prayer to solicit or demand by invocation to implore as to invoke the Supreme Being or to invoke His and blessing...
Evoke
To call out to summon forth...
Loan societies
Loan societies, institutions established by the purpose of advancing money on loan to the industrial classes, and receiving back payment for the same by instalments, with interest. They are exempt from the provisions of the Money Lenders Act, 1900.By the (English) Loan Societies Act, 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 110 (continued by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 19, and made perpetual by 26 & 27 Vict. c. 56), forms of proceeding of a similar nature to those prescribed in the Acts regulating savings banks and friendly societies are requisite to enable loan societies to avail themselves of this Act, and see 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, and 59 & 60 Vict. c.25, s. 2, as to certification of Rules by the Registrar of Friendly Societies.These societies are entitled to issue debentures for money deposited with them (otherwise than by way of gift), and these as well as all other notes and instruments given in pursuance of the Act are exempted from stamp duty. They are also placed on the same footing with savings banks, in the...
Empannel
Empannel [fr. panne, Fr.], the writing or entering by the sheriff, on a parchment, schedule or roll of paper, the names of a jury summoned by him, Cowel....
Essoin, Essoigne, Assoign
Essoin, Essoigne, Assoign [fr. essonium, Lat.; essoine, Fr.; ex, priv., and soing, cura; ab angusta cura, vel labore liberare, which is a more probable derivation than Gk.; though it signifies to excuse by means of an oath, which is the precise nature of an essoin. See Spelman, voc., 'Essoniare' ], an excuse for him who is summoned to appear and answer to an action, or to perform suit to a Court-baron, etc., by reason of sickness or infirmity or other just cause of absence.The causes of excuse called essoins allowed in the King's Court were many. The principal essoin was that de infirmitate, which was of two kinds: 1. De infirmitate veniendi; 2. De infirmitate resianti'--of which the first was afterwards called de malo veniendi, the latter de malo lecti. See 1 Reeves, 115 and 405, for other essoins.Formerly the first general return day of the term was called the essoin day, because the Court sat to receive essoins; but when essoins were no longer allowed to be cast, i.e., obtained, in ...
Factory
Factory, a place where a number of traders reside in a foreign country for the convenience of trade; also a building in which goods are manufactured.In the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, 'Factory' means by s. 149 'textile factory and non-textile factory, or either of those descriptions of factories.'The expression 'textile factory' means any premises wherein or within the close or curtilage of which steam, water or other mechanical power is used to move or work any machinery employed in preparing, manufacturing or finishing or in any process incident to the manufacture of cotton, wool, hair, silk, flax, hemp, jute, tow, china-grass, cocoanut fibre or other like material, either separately or mixed together or mixed with any other material, or any fabric made thereof:Provided that print works, bleaching and dyeing works, lace warehouses, paper mills, flax scutch mills, rope works and hat works shall not be deemed to be textiles factories.'Tenement factory' means a factory when mechanic...
Gemot
Gemot, a mote or moote, meeting, public assembly. The various kinds were-(1) The folc-gemot, or general assembly of the people, whether it was held in a city or town or consisted of the whole shire. It was sometimes summoned by the ringing of the mootbell. Its regular meetings were annual. (2) the shire-gemot, or county Court, which met twice during the year. (3) The burg-gemot, which met thrice in the year. (4) The hundred-gemot, or hundred Court, which met twelve times a year in the Saxon ages; but afterwards a full, perhaps an extraordinary, meeting of every hundred was ordered to be held twice a year. This was the sheriff's tourn or view of franc-pledge. (5) The halle-gemot, or the Court-baron. (6) The wardemotus, Anc. Inst. Eng....
Herebannum
Herebannum, a mulct for not going armed into the field when summoned, Spelm....
Herebote
Herebote, the royal edict, summoning the people into the field....
Distringas
Distringas (that you distrain), anciently called constringas, a writ addressed to the sheriff, and issued to effect various purposes. The cases in which it was used in Common Law proceedings may be thus stated:-(1) a distringas to compel appearance, where defendant had a place of residence within England or Wales. The writ was abolished by the (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 24, and the practice provided for by s. 17 substituted in its stead.(2) A distringas nuper vicecomitem, to compel the late sheriff to sell goods, etc., or to bring in the body.(3) A distringas in detinue, a special writ of execution to compel defendant to deliver the goods by repeated distresses of his chattels; or a scire facias might be issued against a third person in whose hands they might happen to be, to show cause why they should not be delivered; and if the defendant still continued obstinate, then (if the judgment had been by default or on demurrer) the sheriff summoned an inquest to ascertain the value of ...
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