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Home Dictionary Name: war Page: 2 Page 2 of about 362 results (0.002 seconds)War Office
War Office, the address and offices of the Secretary of State for War and Army Council.A child under guardianship. A ward of Court is an infant under the protection of the High Court. An infant is constituted a ward of Court by an action relating to his estate; by an order made on an application for the appointment of a guardian; or by a payment into Court under the Trustee Act, 1925, s. 63; or inan administration action, to which he is party, see Brown v. Collins, (1884) 25 Ch D 56. The control of the Court ceases when the infant comes of age, Bolton v. Bolton, (1891) 3 Ch 270; see Seton on Judgments; Dan. Ch. Pr.; Simpson on Infants. See INFANT.Also, an electoral subdivision of a borough for the purposes of the local government elections [(English) Local Government Act, 1933, ss. 24 to 30]. In boroughs divided by wards, an alderman or, in some cases, a councillor, not the mayor, is returning officer (s. 28). As to district councils, see ss. 36 and 37. Parishes may be divided into war...
Prize of war
Prize of war. See BOOTY OF WAR and PRIZE COURT....
nuclear war
A war in which nuclear weapons are used by both sides As generally used the term assumes major use of nuclear weapons by at least two opposing warring states As of 1999 no nuclear war has occurred...
Man of war
A government vessel employed for the purposes of war esp one of large size a ship of war...
war risk insurance
war risk insurance : insurance that protects against loss due to acts of war ...
war criminal
war criminal : an individual who has committed a war crime ...
war powers
war powers see power ...
Articles of war
Articles of war, a code of laws for the regulation of the land forces, made prior to 1879, in pursuance of the several annual Acts against mutiny and desertion. See ARMY. Formerly there were also Articles of the Navy, embodied in 22 Geo. 2, c. 33; but that statute and others amending it were repealed by 23 & 24 Vict. c.123....
Subject to war clause
Subject to war clause, this expression has not ac-quired any definite meaning and such stipulation being wholly vague, would have no significance. If any articles are delivered under a contract con-taining such a clause, no implication is to be derived from the delivery of the goods by one party or the payment made by the other consequent on such delivery, Bishop & Baxter Ltd. v. Anglo-Eastern Trading & Co. Ltd., (1994) 1 KB 12....
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
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