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Criminal Evidence Act
Criminal Evidence Act, 1898 (English) (61 & 62 Vict. c. 36), the general Act by which every person charged with an offence and his or her wife
Corporation or body politic
or lay'sub-divided into civil, created for many temporal purposes, and eleemosynary, to perpetuate founders' charities. It is by virtue of the sovereign's prerogative exercised by a charter, or of an Act of Parliament, or of prescription, that
Compromise
ending of their controversy to arbitrators. As to the authority of counsel to compromise an action, see Neale v. Gordon-Lennox, 1902 AC 465; and of solicitor, see Fray v. Voules, (1859) 1 E&E 839; and Macaulay v.
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Bonus
the respective rights of tenant for life and remaindermen in a bonus declared by a company, see Bouch v. Sproule, (1887) 12 App Cas 385; Re Northage, (1891) 60 LJ Ch 488, and see Palmer's Company Law,
Bigamy
been known to such person to be living within that time; or even, as was held in Reg. v. Tolson, (1889) 23 QBD 168, by nine judges to five, to a person re-marrying within the seven years
Advertisement
public notice or announcement of a thing. The duties payable on advertisements were repealed by 16 & 17 Vict. c. 63, s. 5. As to the protection afforded to Trustees and Personal Representatives by issuing an advertisement
Accord
smaller amount or a peppercorn, had been accepted in satisfaction, the action would have been barred, see Couldery v. Bartrum, (1881) 19 Ch D 399; Cumber v. Beer, (1884) 9 App Cas 605. So also if a
Accident
of Law. Means an unlook for mishap or an untoward event which is not expected or designed, Fenton v. Thorley & Co. Ltd., 1903 AC 443: 72 LJKP 787: 89 LT 314 (HL). The meaning to be
Disposition
giving away or giving up by a person of something which was his own, Commissioner of Gift Tax v. N.S. Getty Chettiar (1971) 2 SCC 741: AIR 1971 SC 2410: (1972) 1 SCR 736 & Controller of
False imprisonment
It must amount to a total restraint of the plaintiff's liberty for some period, however short, see Bird v. Jones, (1845) 7 QB 742. As to the persons liable, see Walters v. W.H. Smith & Son, Ltd.,
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