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Adult
Adult, means a person who has completed eighteen years of age. [Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966 (32 of 1966), s. 2 (a)]. Means
Pension
2, c. 56, no person having a pension under the Crown during pleasure, or for any term of years, is capable of being elected or sitting in the House of Commons. Old Age Pension.--The (English) Old Age
Age
capital offence, but under the age of 7 he could not. A male under the age of 14 years is presumed impotent as well as doli incapax, and since the presumption of impotence cannot be rebutted, R.
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Copyhold
particular custom) fee-tail, or for life, and he may have only a chattel interest of an estate for years in it. By the custom of some manors, the estate devolves upon the heir on the ancestor's death,
Penal Servitude
is in all respects as to hard labour, etc., similar to it. It ranges in duration from three years to the life of the convict. The (English) Criminal Law Consolidation Act of 1861 frequently authorise a minimum
Desertion
may be obtained either by the husband or wife on the ground of desertion, without cause, for two years and upwards; and see (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85), s. 21, as
Prescription
presumption that he who has had a quiet and uninterrupted possession of anything for a long period of years is supposed to have a just right, without which he would not have been suffered to continue in
Lease and release
mode of conveyance which derived its effect from the Statute of Uses, compounded of a lease for a year at Common Law, or a bargain and sale for a year under the Statute of Uses, and a
Hawkers and pedlars
horse, etc. see Woolwich Local Board v. Gardiner, (1895) 2 QB 497. A hawker's licence costs 2l. a year, and except by way of renewal of a licence for the year immediately preceding, is grantable by the
Tenure
common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND). The idea of tenure or holding is said to derive from feudalism, which separated the
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