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Authorities

acts of the legislature, precedents, decided cases, and opinions of text writers. See PRECEDENT.

Benefit of clergy

matter of royal favour, founding their principal argument upon this text of Scripture: 'Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets

Boni judicio est ampliare jurisdictionem

v. Philips, (1757) 1 Burr. 304, observes that the true text is 'justitiam,' and not 'jurisdictionem.'

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Coke, Sir Edward

of an edition of Littleton's Treatise on Tenures. A famous text-writer and reporter among English lawyers, one of whose great characteristics,

Consent

Consent, an act of reason accompanied with delib-erations, the mind weighing, as in a balance, the good or evil on...

Deed

the aid of stops or parentheses. Usage has arranged the text of a conveyance inter partes in a formal and well-understood

Misprision

is sometimes called a misprision. Misprisions are divided in the text-books into two kinds:- (1) Negative, the concealment of what ought

Factory

works and hat works shall not be deemed to be textiles factories. 'Tenement factory' means a factory when mechanical power is

Gift

Gift. The old text-writers made a gift (donatio) a distinct species of deed, and

Information

information, see those titles; also QUO WARRANTO; NUISANCE. Includes data, text, images, sound, voice, codes, computer programmes, software and data bases

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