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Eggs. Of Poultry.--For hatching: importation may be regulated by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries by 25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 31. As to marking and grade designation marks, see 18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 19, and sale of eggs under that designation, 23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 40, and see ANIMALS.Of Game.--The destruction or taking of or possessing eggs of any kind of game, or swan, wild duck, teal, or widgeon, by any person not having the right of killing game upon the land is punishable on conviction before two justices with a fine of 5s. for every egg, by s. 24 of the Game Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 32). See GAME, and Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Game.' As to larceny of pheasants' eggs, see R. v. Stride, (1908) 1 KB 617.Of Wild Birds.--On application by a county council, a Secretary of State may prohibit, by s. 2 of the (English) Wild Birds Protection Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 24), the taking or destroying of eggs of wild birds or of any kind of wild birds, and by an Act of 1902 (e Edw. 7, c. 6), th...
Securitatem inveniendi
Securitatem inveniendi, etc., an ancient writ, lying for the sovereign, against any of his subjects, to stay them from going out of the kingdom to foreign parts; the ground whereof is, that every man is bound to serve and defend the Commonwealth as the Crown shall think fit, Fitz. N.B. 115...
Arraign
Arraign [fr. arraisonner, aresner, aregnir, arraigner, Old Fr., i.e., ad rationem ponere, Lat., to call one to account], to bring a prisoner to the bar of the Court to answer the matter charged upon him in the indictment. The arraignment of a prisoner consists of calling upon him by name, reading to him the indictment, demanding of him whether he be guilty or not guilty, and entering his plea. The pleas upon arraignment are either the general issue, i.e., not guilty, or a plea in abatement or in bar, or the prisoner may demur to the indictment, or he may confess the fact, upon which the Court proceeds immediately to judgment. But, if the prisoner 'shall stand mute or malice, or will not answer directly to the indictment or information,' the Court, if it shall so think fit, may 'order the proper officer to enter a plea of 'not guilty' on behalf of such a person, and the plea so entered shall have the same force and effect as if the person had so pleaded the same.'-Crim. Law Act,1827 (7 ...
Assizes Relief Act, 1890
Assizes Relief Act, 1890, (52 & 53 Vict. c. 12), to relieve the Court of Assize from the trial of persons charged with offences triable at Quarter Sessions-by which Act justices of the peace are directed to bind over prosecutors to appear at the next practicable Court of Quarter Sessions, in case of the prisoner being committed on a charge there triable, unless such justices think fit for special reasons otherwise to direct, see (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 86), s. 14 (for power to commit to convenient assizes)....
Coast-guard
Coast-guard. See the (English) Coast Guard Service Act, 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 83), 'to provide for the better defence of the Coasts of the Realm,. And the ready manning of the Navy; and th transfer' to the Admiralty 'from the Board of Customs the Government of the Coast Guard,' whereby the Admiralty may raise such number of officers or men from time to time up to 10,000 as it may think fit for the constitution of a Coast-guard. The force was originally formed merely for the prevention of smuggling, in connection with which it has many duties to discharge under the Customs Acts. The (English) Coast-guard Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 88), transfers the control of the Coast-guard service to the Board of Trade but in case of emergency it can be transferred to the Admiralty....
Borough Sessions
Borough Sessions, courts established in boroughs under the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882. They are held by the recorders of the respective boroughs once a quarter, or oftener if they think fit, and at times to be fixed by them. The Court has 'cognizance of all crimes, offences, and matters cognizable by the County Quarter Sessions, whose powers extend to all boroughs which may not have obtained a separate court by petition under s. 162 of the Act, 1882, and see also (English) Summary Jurisdiction (Appeals) Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 33)....
Execution
Execution, the last state of a suit whereby possession is obtained of anything recovered by a judgment. It is styled final process, and is regulated by R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XLII., r. 17, of which allows immediate execution in ordinary cases. See PR'CIPE.The ordinary writs of execution are capia ad satisfaciendum; fieri facias; elegit; and habere facias possessionem. See these titles respectively, especially FIERI FACIAS.As to the protection of vendor or purchaser on a sale under an execution, see Bankruptcy and Deeds of Arrangement Act, 1913, s. 15.As to the writ of capias ad satisfaciendum, see Hulbert v. Cathcart, 1896 AC 470; and it is to be borne in mind that by the (English) Debtors Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 62), imprisonment for debt has been abolished, except as specified in s. 4. See IMPRISONMENT.By (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XLII., r. 17(b), the Court or a judge may, at or after the time of giving judgment or making an order, stay execution until such time as they or he shall ...
Great Seal
Great Seal [clavis regni,Lat.], the emblem of sovereignty, introduced by Edward the Confessor. It is held by the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper for the time being and may not be taken out of the country. By Art. 24 of the Union between England and Scotland (5 Anne, c. 8) it was provided that there should be one Great Seal for the United Kingdom, to be used for sealing writs to summon the Parliament, and for sealing treaties with foreign states and all public acts of state which concern the United Kingdom, and in all other matters relating to England, as the Great Seal of England was then used; and that a seal in Scotland should be kept and made use of in all things relating to private rights or grants, which had usually passed the Great Seal of Scotland, and which only concern offices, grants, commissions, and private right within Scotland. On the Union between Great Britain and Ireland no express provision was made by any of the Articles of the Union as to the establishing one Great S...
Guardianship
Guardianship. The care of and responsibility for a person of non-age or infancy in regard to its person or property, or both. At Common Law, the father is the guardian by nature and nurture but the rights and duties relating to that office have been modified in favour of the mother by the (English) Custody of Infants Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 12, (English) Guardianship of Infants Acts, 1886 (49 & 50 Vict. c. 27), and 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 45), and the (English) Custody of Children Act, 1891 (54 Vict. c. 3). The main consideration is the welfare of the child. In modern times, guardians may be said to be of six kinds:-(1) Testamentary.--By 12 Car. 2, c. 24, s. 8, the father, and by s. 5 of the Act of 1925, both father and mother have an equal right to appoint a guardian by deed or will to act after death respectively either jointly with the survivor or otherwise, as the Court may direct.(2) Maternal.--Under the Acts of 1886 and 1925, s. 4, on the death of the father, the mother, if ...
Quartering traitors
Quartering traitors. The judgment for high treason, as prescribed by 54 Geo. 3, c. 146, s. 1, was that the head of the person after death by hanging should be severed from his body, and the body, divided into four quarters, should be disposed of as the sovereign should think fit; but this portion of the Act is repealed by the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870, s. 31....
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