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Distribution, Statute of
Distribution, Statute of (22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 10), now only applied to intestacies prior to 1926, repealed by (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925 (see WIDOW), explained by the Statute of Frauds, 29 Car....
Distringas
Distringas (that you distrain), anciently called constringas, a writ addressed to the sheriff, and issued to effect various purposes. The cases in which it was used in Common Law proceedings may be thus stated:- (1) a...
Domicile
Domicile, the place where a person has his home. By the term 'domicile,' in its ordinary acceptation, is meant the place where a person lives or has his home. In this sense the place where a...
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Cause of action
Cause of action, a cause of action is a bundle of facts which are required to be pleaded and proved for the purpose of obtaining relief claimed in the suit. For the aforementioned purpose, the material...
Enrollment
Enrollment, register, record; writing in which anything is recorded. The act of recording or registering, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 551. By the Statute of Enrolments, 27 Hen. 8, c. 16, now repealed by the...
Effective representation
Effective representation, If a procedure under Article 21 has to be reasonable, fair and just, then the words 'effective representation' appearing in Article 22(5) must be construed so as to provide a real and meaningful opportunity...
Bargain and sale
Bargain and sale, A contract for the sale of real or personal property of any kind operating under the Statute of Uses as a conveyance of the land, or at Common Law, from early times of...
Basic wages
Basic wages, means all emoluments which are earned by an employee while on duty or on leave or on holidays with wages in either case in accordance with the terms of the contract of employment and...
Base fee
Base fee. A species of inheritable freehold estate which forms part of the class of estates known as conditional freeholds of inheritance. In a more special sense, a base fee was until 1926 a fee simple...
Backing a warrant of a justice of the peace
Backing a warrant of a justice of the peace. Formerly, where a warrant which had been granted in one jurisdiction was required to be executed in another, as where a felony had been committed in one...
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Distribution, Statute of
Distribution, Statute of (22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 10), now only applied to intestacies prior to 1926, repealed by (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925 (see WIDOW), explained by the Statute of Frauds, 29 Car....
Distringas
Distringas (that you distrain), anciently called constringas, a writ addressed to the sheriff, and issued to effect various purposes. The cases in which it was used in Common Law proceedings may be thus stated:- (1) a...
Domicile
Domicile, the place where a person has his home. By the term 'domicile,' in its ordinary acceptation, is meant the place where a person lives or has his home. In this sense the place where a...
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Cause of action
Cause of action, a cause of action is a bundle of facts which are required to be pleaded and proved for the purpose of obtaining relief claimed in the suit. For the aforementioned purpose, the material...
Enrollment
Enrollment, register, record; writing in which anything is recorded. The act of recording or registering, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 551. By the Statute of Enrolments, 27 Hen. 8, c. 16, now repealed by the...
Effective representation
Effective representation, If a procedure under Article 21 has to be reasonable, fair and just, then the words 'effective representation' appearing in Article 22(5) must be construed so as to provide a real and meaningful opportunity...
Bargain and sale
Bargain and sale, A contract for the sale of real or personal property of any kind operating under the Statute of Uses as a conveyance of the land, or at Common Law, from early times of...
Basic wages
Basic wages, means all emoluments which are earned by an employee while on duty or on leave or on holidays with wages in either case in accordance with the terms of the contract of employment and...
Base fee
Base fee. A species of inheritable freehold estate which forms part of the class of estates known as conditional freeholds of inheritance. In a more special sense, a base fee was until 1926 a fee simple...
Backing a warrant of a justice of the peace
Backing a warrant of a justice of the peace. Formerly, where a warrant which had been granted in one jurisdiction was required to be executed in another, as where a felony had been committed in one...
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