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Copyhold. Tenure in copyhold has been abolished under the (English) L.P. Acts, 1922 and 1925, and the Amending Acts of...

Contingency with a double aspect, is a kind of executory interest which maybe termed an alternative interest. This is an...

Bill in criminal cases. Grand Juries were abolished by the (English) Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1933 (23 &...

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Advowson [fr. advocare, Lat.], a right of presentation to, or the patronage of, a church or spiritual living; the person...

Executory devise. Mr. Fearne (Cont. Rem. 386) defines an executory devise to be, strictly, such a limitation of a future...

Pension, an annual allowance made to any one, usually in consideration of past services. By the (English) Succession to the...

Hotchpot [fr. hache en poche, Fr., a confused mingling of diverse things], a blending or mixing of lands and chattels,...

Institutions. It was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of...

Judicial power, 'judicial power' may be defined as the power to examine questions submitted for determination with a view to...

Laudibus (de) legum angli'. Sir John Fortescue, who had been some time chief justice of the King's Bench in the...

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