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Pigeons
Pigeons. Unlawfully and wilfully to 'kill, wound, or take any house dove or pigeon under such circumstances as shall not amount to
Recusants
Recusants, persons who wilfully absented them-selves from their parish church, and on whom penalties were imposed by various statutes (e.g., 1 Eliz.
Scienter
Scienter [Lat.] (knowingly, wilfully). In an action of deceit, the scienter must be averred and proved. In case of injury to cattle
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Statutory Declarations Act, 1835
under the above Act, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 21. As to the punishment if a person 'knowingly and wilfully makes a statement false in a material particular' in a statutory declaration see (English) Perjury Act, 1911, s.
Sequestration
Sequestration. This is a prerogative process (formerly confined to the Court of Chancery and the Courts of Probate and Divorce), addressed to certain commissioners empowering them to enter upon real estates, and sequester the rents, and...
Solicitor
s. 46 for prosecuting in a summary way any person not having in force a practising certificate who wilfully pretends to be a solicitor (see 1934 Act, infra). A solicitor cannot sue for (although he may set
Street offences
the purpose of hawking selling, distributing, or collecting any article whatsoever, or of obtaining money, or alms,' and wilfully disregarding police regulations, 'after having been made acquainted with them,' for regulating routes during divine service, and for
Tax, interest and penalty
charging provision in a taxing statute. Penalty ordinarily becomes payable when it is found that an assessee has wilfully violated any of the provisions of the taxing statute. Interest is ordinarily claimed from an assessee who has
Turpis causa
Turpis causa, a base or vile consideration on which no action can be founded, the maxim being Ex turpi causa non oritur actio, see Collins v. Blantern, (1766) 2 Wils 341; 1 Smith, L.C.
Mushrooms
Mushrooms, to pick these growing in their natural state in a field is not 'wilfully or maliciously to commit damage to real or personal property' within s. 52 of the (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861; Gardner...
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