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Test Act (25 Car. 2, c. 2), by which it was provided that all persons having any offices, civil or military (with the exception of some few of an inferior kind), or receiving pay from the Crown, or holding a place of trust under it, should take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, subscribe a declaration against transubstantiation, and receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the usage of the Church of England. The Test Act, after having been extended by 1 Geo. 1, st. 2, c. 13, 2 Geo. 2, c. 31, and 9 Geo. 2, c. 26, was repealed by 9Geo. 4, c. 17...
University
University, an association of learners, and of teachers and examiners of the learners, upon whose report the association grants upon whose report the association grants titles called 'degrees' (such as 'Master of Arts,' 'Doctor of Divinity'), showing that the holders have attained some definite proficiency.The English Universities are those of Oxford, Cambridge (incorporated by 13 Eliz. c. 29, by the two names of the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford and Cambridge respectively, with the direction that they shall be called and named by none other name for evermore), Durham, London, Victoria of Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, and East Midland University Nottingham, the graduates of which (see University of Liverpool Act, 1904; (English) University of Leeds Act, 1904; and (English) Sheffield University Act, 1914) have equal statutory privileges and exemptions; and Reading University (see 18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 25). There is also the Uni...
Last proximate act test
Last proximate act test, means a common law test for the crime of attempt, based on whether the defendant does the final act necessary to commit an offence (such as pulling the trigger of a gun, not merely aiming if). This test has been rejected by most courts as too lenient, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 887....
irresistible impulse test
irresistible impulse test : a test used in some jurisdictions when considering an insanity defense that involves a determination of whether an impulse to commit a criminal act was irresistible due to mental disease or defect regardless of whether the defendant knew right from wrong compare diminished capacity, durham rule, m'naghten test, substantial capacity test ...
Tested
Tested, to bear the teste. A writ is issued in the name of the sovereign, and the Lord Chancellor is supposed to witness it. All writs are, by R.S.C. 1883, Ord. II., r. 8, tested in the name of the Lord Chancellor. They were before the Judicature Acts tested in the name of the Lord Chancellor if issuing from the Court of Chancery, or of the Lord Chief Justice if issuing from the Queen's Bench, etc....
Dissenters
Dissenters, Protestant seceders from the Established Church. They are of many denominations, principally Presbyterians, Independents or Congregationalists, Methodists, and Baptists; but as to Church government the Baptists are Independents.The penal laws, for the enforcement of legal uniformity, have been abrogated. The (English) Toleration Act, 1 W. & M. st. 1, c. 18, extended to Unitarians by 53 Geo. 3, c. 160, first allowed dissenters to assemble for religious worship according to their own forms in places of meeting duly certified; as to such places, see now 18 & 19 Vict. c. 81, and 19 & 20 Vict. c. 119, ss. 17, 27. The (English) Dissenters Chapels Act, 1844 (see that title), provided for meeting-houses; and the (English) Trustees Appointment Act, 1850 (13 & 14 Vict. c. 28), commonly called (English) Peto's Act, amended by the (English) Trustees Appointment Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 19), provides for facilities in regard to the appointment of trustees andthe title to lands purcha...
Blood tests
Blood tests, means blood tests carried out under the Family Law Reforms Act, 1969, including any test made with the object of ascertaining the inheritable characteristics of blood, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 5(3), 4th Edn., Para 113, p. 74....
Pre-natal diagnostic test
Pre-natal diagnostic test, means ultrasonography or any test or analysis of amniotic fluid, chorionic villi, blood or any tissue of a pregnant woman conducted to detect genetic or metabolic disorders or chromosomal abnormalities or congenital anomalies or haemoglobinopathies or sex-linked disease. [Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Technique (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 (57 of 1994), s. 2 (k)]...
substantial capacity test
substantial capacity test : a test used in many jurisdictions when considering an insanity defense which relieves a defendant of criminal responsibility if at the time of the crime as a result of mental disease or defect the defendant lacked the capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his or her conduct or to conform the conduct to the requirements of the law called also ALI test Model Penal Code test compare diminished capacity, irresistible impulse test, m'naghten test NOTE: This test was first formulated in the Model Penal Code and has been adopted by many jurisdictions. ...
Frye test
Frye test [from United States v. Frye, 293 F. 1013 (1923), the case that established the rule] : a common-law rule of evidence: the results of scientific tests or procedures are admissible as evidence only when the tests or procedures have gained general acceptance in the particular field to which they belong called also Frye rule NOTE: In Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 509 U.S. 579 (1993), the Supreme Court held that the Federal Rules of Evidence supersede the Frye test, and as a result scientific evidence (as expert testimony) needs to meet only the requirements of the Federal Rules of Evidence in order to be admissible. ...
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