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Overseers of the poor

Overseers of the poor (now abolished by (English) Rating and Valuation Act, 1925 (c. 90), ss. 1, 64), formerly public...

Novell', those constitutions of the Civil law which were made after the publication of the Theodosian code; but sometimes the...

Coparceners or parceners. The name given to persons who until 1926 inherited an inheritable estate by virtue of descents from...

Married women's property, At Common Law, a woman, by marrying, transferred the ownership of all her property, real and personal,...

Herald [fr. here, Sax., an army, and heald, a champion; herault, heraut, Fr.; herald, Ger.; araldo, Ital.; because it was...

Gavelkind. A mode or rule of descent by custom abolished by the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 45(1)(a), in...

Factory, a place where a number of traders reside in a foreign country for the convenience of trade; also a...

Averment [fr. verificatio, Lat.], an advancement or affirmation of any matter in a pleading, and when new matter was introduced...

Assets [fr. assetz, Nor.-Fr., i.e., satis, Lat.; assez, Fr., sufficient; in Old English it was commonly written asseth], the property...

use 1 a : an arrangement in which property is granted to another with the trust and confidence that the...