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Home Dictionary Name: ward Page: 2Attorney of the Wards and Liveries
Attorney of the Wards and Liveries was the third officer of the Duchy Court, 1 Bac. Abr., tit. 'Attorney....
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...
Guardian
Guardian, means a person having the care of the person of a minor or his property or of both his person and property, and includes:(i) a natural guardian,(ii) a guardian appointed by the will of the minor's father or mother,(iii) a guardian appointed or declared by court, and(iv) a person empowered to act as such by or under any enactment relating to any court of wards;Explanation.--For the purposes of this clause, any name which is not the name of a country, region or locality of that country shall also be considered as the geographical indication if it relates to a specifies geographical area and is used upon or in relation to particular goods originating from that country, region or locality, as the case may be. [Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956 (32 of 1956), s. 4(b)]A guardian is one appointed by the wisdom and policy of the law to take care of a person and his affairs, who by reason of his imbecility and want of understanding is incapable of acting for his own interest (2...
Infant
Infant [fr. infans, Lat., one who cannot speak], a person under twenty-one years of age, whose acts are in many cases either void or voidable. See AGE.At Common Law, the contracts of infants are divided into three classes: 1st. Those which are absolutely void; such as are positively injurious to the interests of the infant, and can only operate to his prejudice; as a surety-bond, or a release to his guardian.2nd. Those which are only voidable: such as are beneficial to him, which he may affirm or avoid when he comes of age; as a conveyance of lands, a promissory note, an account stated.3rd. Those which are binding ab initio and need on ratification: such as contracts for the public service, Articles of apprenticeship [see Green v. Thompson, (1899) 2 QB 1], executed contracts of marriage, representative acts as executor or trustee, contracts for necessaries. In an action brought for the price of goods, if the defendant pleads infancy, the onus is on the plaintiff to prove that the goods...
Quare intrusit
Quare intrusit, a writ that formerly lay where the Lord proffered a suitable marriage to his ward, who rejected it, and entered into the land, and married another, for the value of his marriage not being satisfied to the Lord. Abolished by 12 Car. 2, c. 24.Means 'why he thrust in'. A writ allowing a lord to recover the value of a marriage, when the Lord offered a suitable marriage to a ward but the ward rejected it and married someone else, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1256....
Family
Family, in relation to a person, includes the ascend-ant and descendant of such person. [Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976 (19 of 1976), s. 2(h)]. A group consisting of parents and their children; a group of person connected by blood by affinity, or by law, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 620.In relation to an occupier, means the individual, the wife or husband, as the case may be, of such individual, and their children, brother or sister of such individual. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986), s. 2 (v)]In relation to an operator, means his wife and dependant children and includes his dependent parents. [Dangerous Machines (Regulation) Act, 1983 (35 of 1983), s. 3 (g)]Means:(i) In the case of a male-subscriber the wife or wives, parents, children, minor brothers, unmarried sisters, deceased son's widow and children and where no parent of the subscriber is alive, a paternal grandparent: Provided that if a subscriber proves that his wife has be...
Revishment de gard
Revishment de gard (ravishment of ward), an abolished writ which lay for a guardian, by knight's service or in socage, against a person who took from him the body of his ward, Fitz. N.B. 140; 12 Car. 2, c. 3....
Maritagium
Maritagium, 1. A lord's right to arrange a married for his infant ward 2. Dower 3. Dowry; a marriage gift, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 980.Maritagium, the portion which is given with a daughter in marriage. Also, the power which the lord or guardian in chivalry had of disposing of his infant ward in matrimony, Spelm. See 1 Reeves (Finlason's Edition), 171....
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...
H'rede deliberando alteri habet custodiam terr'
H'rede deliberando alteri habet custodiam terr', an ancient writ directed to the sheriff to require one that had the body of an heir being in ward, to deliver him to the person whose ward he was by reason of his land, Reg. Brev. 161....
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