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living will : a document in which the signer indicates preferences or directions for the administration and esp. the withdrawal or withholding of life-sustaining medical treatment in the event of terminal illness or permanent unconsciousness see also advance directive compare durable power of attorney at power of attorney ...

estate at will

estate at will see estate ...

at-will employment

at-will employment A type of employment relationship in which there is no contractual agreement and either party may end the employment relationship at any time, for any reason or for no reason at all, without incurring a penalty ...

administrator with the will annexed

administrator with the will annexed see administrator ...

Army (UK)

Army (UK) [fr. armee, Fr.], the military force of a country. From1689 to 1879, the army was regulated by Annual Mutiny Acts usually expiring in April, and by the 'Articles of War' which those Acts empowered the sovereign to make. In 1879 the Army Discipline Act (42 & 43 Vict. c. 33) consolidated the provisions of the Mutiny Act with the Articles of War. This Act having been amended by the Army Discipline and Regulation Annual Act, 1881, which substituted 'summary' for corporal punishment, and also by the Regulation of the Forces Act, 1881, a fairly complete military code is now contained in the 'Army Act, 1881' (44 & 45 Vict. c. 58), now styled the 'Army Act' simply, by virtue of s. 4 of the Army (Annual) Act, 1890.The Army Act requires to be annually renewed by an Act passed for that purpose called the 'Army (Annual) Act.' Such annual Act follows the precedent of the Mutiny Acts is reciting the illegality of a standing army in time of peace without consent of Parliament (as declared b...

Nuncupative Will

Nuncupative Will, a verbal testament depending merely upon oral evidence, being declared by the testator in extremis before a sufficient number of witnesses and after wards reduced to writing, 2 Bl. Com. 500.The (English) Statute of Frauds, 29, Car. 2, c. 3, restricted nuncupative wills, except when made by mariners at sea, and soldiers in actual service. Nuncupative wills are abolished by the (English) Wills Act, 1837, s. 9, but with a proviso by s. 11 that any soldier being in actual military service, or any marine or seaman being at sea, may dispose of his personal estate, as he might have done before the making of this Act. A will made by a soldier under s. 11 accordingly requires no attestation, and s. 15, avoiding gifts to attesting witnesses, has no application to such a will [Re Limond, (1915) 2 Ch 240]. The Wills (Soldiers and Sailors) Act, 1918, slightly enlarges the class of persons to whom s. 11 applies (s. 2), and extends the right to make wills, without the formalities re...

Frauds, Statute of

Frauds, Statute of, 29 Car. 2, c. 3 (A.D. 1676). This famous statute is said to have been famed by Sir Matthew Hale, Lord Keeper Guilford, and Sir Leoline Jenkins, an eminent civilian. Lord Nottingham used to say of it, that 'every line was worth a subsidy,' and it has been said that at all events the explanation of every line has cost a subsidy, no statute having been the subject of so much litigation. The statute, though it does not apply or have any Act corresponding to it in Scotland, was practically copied by the Irish Parliament in 7 Wm. 3, c. 12, applies generally to the British colonies, and, remarks Mr. Chancellor Kent (2 Com. 494, n. (d), 'carries its influence through the whole body of American juris-prudence, and is in many respects the most comprehensive, salutary, and important legislative regulation on record affecting the security of private rights.'The main object of the statute was to take away the facilities for fraud and the temptation to perjury which arose in verb...

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