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Michael Angelo Taylor's Act (English)

c. xxix.) (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Metropolis'), for better paving and regulating the streets of the Metropolis, partly superseded by the (English) Metropolis Management Acts, and the (English) Public Health (London) Acts, which repeal 'as from the

Molestation

an act of serious annoyance. Also in Scots law, the name of an action (now in disuse, being superseded by declarator and interdict) competent to the proprietor of a landed estate against those who disturb his possession--Bell's

Office

1871--the particularities of the Act of Richard the Second having been (it is presumed) conceived to have been superseded by the generalities of the Promissory Oaths Act, 1868. The sale of offices is also prohibited by the

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Old Bailey Sessions

Old Bailey Sessions. These were superseded by the Central Criminal Court.

Judge

Judge [fr. juge, Fr.; judex, Lat.], one invested with authority to determine any cause or question in a Court of judicature. The word 'judge' denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a judge...

Keating's (Sir H.S.) Act

Keating's (Sir H.S.) Act, (English) for summary procedure on bills of exchange (18 & 19 Vict. c. 67). Superseded by (English) R.S.C., Ord. III., r. 6, and repealed (with savings for inferior courts by s. 7) by

Fare

the Court by imprisonment up to one month on summary conviction, by the Regulation of Railways Act, 1889, superseding but not repealing s. 103 of the (English) Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c.

Ireland

Irish Republicans of the South for a complete severance led to the Govern-ment of Ireland Act, 1920, which superseded the Act of 1914. It provided for separate Governments in Northern and Southern Ireland, each with an Executive

Illud quod alias licitum non est necessitas facit licitum; et necessitas inducit privilegium quod jure privatur

quod jure privatur [Lat.], that which is otherwise not permitted, necessity permits, and necessity makes a privilege which supersedes law.

Hundredors

1886 hundredors were liable for damage done by riots, under 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 31, which superseded all the prior statutes (repealed by 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 27) relative to such liability. But

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