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Children. The word child in legal documents means a legitimate child unless otherwise declared by statute. See Morris v. Britannic...

Land charge, means a rent or annuity or principal moneys charged otherwise than by deed upon land under (English) Act...

Registration of title of land. The (English) Land Registration Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 21), repeals and re-enacts the...

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Deed [fr. d'd, Sax.; ded gaded, Goth.;daed, Dut.], a formal document on paper or parchment duly signed, sealed, and delivered....

Judgment [fr. judgment, Fr.], judicial determination; decision of a Court. Under the former practice of the superior Courts, this term...

Sessions of the peace, sittings of justices of the peace for the execution of those powers which are confided to...

Debt [fr. debitum, Lat.], a sum of money due from one person to another. An action of debt lay where...

power 1 : capability of acting or of producing an effect [parties of unequal bargaining ] 2 a : authority...

Company [fr. compagnia, Ital., which word is still printed on Bank of England notes as 'compa'], a body of persons...

Insurance, see, Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80C, Expl. 1. Insurance, the act of providing against a possible...

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