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Assize, or assise

Justice and the President of the Probate Division. The commissioner has all the powers and duties which are vested in the Probate Division in respect of such causes. Undefended causes and certain others brought or defended by

Attendant term

cease, but where attendant terms with a leasehold reversion were satisfied on the1st January, 1926, and were also vested in the owner of the reversion, the merger is not to affect any protection which the owner of

Australia, Commonwealth of.

Commonwealth of Australia v. Colonial Sugar Refining Co., 1914 AC 237. The judicial powers of the Commonwealth are vested in a High Court of Australia, consisting of a Chief Justice and not less than two puisne Judges

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Bankruptcy

and does not include a property claim brought by a trustee in bankruptcy in respect of bankrupt's assets vested in him; and that, accordingly, the proceedings were not excluded, Ashourst v. Pollard, (2000) 1 WLR 722 (CA).

Bare trustee

para 3, the legal estate, if any, in a bare trustee (not being a trustee for sale) automatically vested in the person who could call for a conveyance of it. Although this simplified conveyancing where the legal

Beer

and Beerhouse Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 29), by requiring a justices' license-with a saving for vested interests-placed beerhouses, beershops, and alehouses much on the same footing, and the (English) Licensing Acts of 1873 and

Benefice

registration of the transfer, to purchase the advowson from the new patron, in which case it will be vested in the Diocesan Board of Patronage. The (English) Benefices Act, 1898, allows a bishop to refuse to institute

Change in law of procedure

Change in law of procedure, Change in Law of Procedure-No person has a vested right in any course of procedure. He has only the right of prosecution or defence in the manner

Bounty of Queen Anne

of a benefice. Under the (English) Tithe Act, 1926 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, s. 87), there is vested in Queen Anne's Bounty all ecclesiastical tithe rentcharge. The rentcharge is collected by the Bounty and paid over

Cabinet

Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundy, p. 70. The executive and legislative powers are vested in cabinet which is individually and collectively responsible to Parliament. Cabinet functions as long as it enjoys confidence

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