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Renewal
original contract. The office of a 'renewal', as it is termed, of a life policy, is to prevent discontinuance or forfeiture. … lease. Thus, the initial term of a lease of ninety years could not co-exist with the renewals of that very lease
Lease from month to month
to the contrary that the lease was for a fixed term or to be a yearly lease instead of a lease … claim that lease was for a fixed term of five years and the lease would be entered at the option and
Unnatural offence
Person Act, 1861, by penal servitude for life or any term not less than ten years, but this minimum punishment was
Justices
or customary tenure, in fee, for life, or a given term, of the yearly value of 100l., or a reversion or … the clear yearly value of 300l. per annum; but two years' occupation of a dwelling-house of not less than 100l. annual
Accessary, or Accessory
the fact is in general punishable with imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years (with or without hard labour), and
Election
Streatfield v. Streatfield, (1735) Cas. Temp. Talb. 176; W&TLC. The term 'election' is also used to signify the determination of persons … Parliament are held on completion of a term of five years or earlier, if dissolved by crown, for returning the representatives
Issuable terms
Issuable terms. Hilary and Trinity were so called because in them issues … the four terms were issuable. The division of the legal year into terms is now abolished, so far as relates to
Last day of term
term. On the last day of each of the four terms the junior barrister present in every Court of law was … of the administration of justice the division of the legal year into terms has been abolished (Jud. Act, 1873, s. 26).
Forgery
in some cases for life and in others for any term not exceeding seven years. Where the forgery is not a
Option of purchase in a lease
a limited number of years, or at anytime during the term, is sometimes inserted in leases. A clause giving an option
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