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Act of Settlement
Act of parliament (1701) settling the succession to the throne. The Bill of Rights (1689) had limited the succession -in accordance to Bamber Gascoigne´ Encyclopedia of Britain about “Act of Settlement”- to the children of Mary and Anne (the daughters of James II) and of their cousin William [...]Adjudication
Definition of Adjudication In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Adjudication : 1. The formal judgment or decision of a court or tribunal. 2. A decision by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue as to the amount (if any) of *stamp duty payable on a [...]Alderman
Definition of Alderman In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Alderman : A senior member of a local authority, elected by its directly elected members. Active aldermanic rank now exists only in the *City of London, having been phased out elsewhere by the [...]Appointment of Judges
Constitutional Reform Act 2005 Civil Liberties Consultation Paper 2003 Consultation Paper 2011 In 2011, the Ministry of Justice published a consultation document entitled Appointments and Diversity: A Judiciary for the 21st Century. It can be accessed on the website of the [...]Article
Definition of Article In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Article : A clause in a document. The plural, articles, is often used to mean the entire document, e.g. *articles of association Article 81 A provision of the Treaty of Rome that prohibits [...]Assignment
Definition of Assignment In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Assignment : 1. The transfer of a *chose in action by one person (the assignor) to another (the assignee). By the rules of the common law, this was not permissible. If, for example, A was owed a [...]Bailie
In Scotland the word bailiff has taken the form of bailie, signifying a superior officer or magistrate of a municipal corporation. Bailies, by virtue of their office, are invested with certain judicial and administrative powers within the burgh for which they are appointed. They sit as [...]Bar
The Bar Definition of Bar In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Bar : 1. A legal impediment. 2. An imaginary barrier in a court of law. Only Queen's Counsel, officers of the court, and litigants in person are allowed between the bar and the *bench [...]Baron
Baron Meaning, as used in the UK Parliament The British Peerage has five ranks or grades. Baron is the fifth and lowest of the ranks. Baron is a title that was created and first given to John Beauchamp de Holt in 1387. History This word, of uncertain origin, was introduced into England at [...]Black-mail
Concept of Black-mail The following is an old definition of Black-mail [1], a term which has several meanings:1. Rent reserved in work, grain, or the baser money. Opposed, white rent: rent paid in silver. A rent in grain, cattle, money, or other thing, anciently paid to men of influence, in [...]Chancellor
History The chancellor in England In England the office of chancellor dates back to the reign of Edward the Confessor, the first English king to use the Norman practice of sealing instead of signing documents; and from the Norman Conquest onwards the succession of chancellors is [...]Chancery
History Chancery, in English law, the court of the lord chancellor of England, consolidated in 1873 along with the other superior courts in the Supreme Court of Judicature. Its origin is noticed under the head of Chancellor. It has been customary to say that the court of chancery consists [...]Chancery Division
Definition of Chancery Division In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Chancery Division : The division of the *High Court of Justice created by the Judicature Acts 1873-75 to replace the *Court of Chancery. The work of the Division is principally concerned [...]Confidential Information
Resources See Also See breach of confidence.Copyright
Definition of Copyright In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Copyright : The exclusive right to reproduce or authorize others to reproduce artistic, dramatic, literary, or musical works. It is conferred by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, which [...]Coroner
Definition of Coroner In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Coroner : An officer of the Crown whose principal function is to investigate deaths suspected of being violent or unnatural. He will do this either by ordering an *autopsy or conducting an *inquest. [...]Costs
Definition of Costs In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Costs : Sums payable for legal services. A distinction is drawn between contentious and noncontentious costs (broadly, the distinction between costs relating to litigious and nonlitigious [...]County
Definition of County In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of County : A first-tier *local government area in England (outside Greater London) or Wales. The Local Government Act 1972 created 45 counties for England and 8 for Wales, dividing the former into [...]County Court
County Cour Definition of County Court County courts deal with civil cases and do not have jurisdiction to hear criminal cases. In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of County Court : Any of the civil courts forming a system covering all of England and [...]Death
Definition of Death The permanent cessation of the vital functions in the bodies of animals and plants, the end of life or act of dying. The word is the English representative of the substantive common to Teutonic languages, as “dead” is of the adjective, and “die” of the verb; the ultimate [...]Decree
Definition of Decree In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Decree : A law. A court order. History of Decree In English law decree was more particularly the judgment of a court of equity, but since the Judicature Acts the expression “judgment” [...]Denizen
Meaning of Denizen The following is an old definition of Denizen [1]: An alien born who has obtained ex donatione regis letters-patent to make him a subject. whence (the word(s) which follow it are derivatives from the same root word) denizenize, denizenation or denization, and denizenship. [...]Discharge
Definition of Discharge In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Discharge : Release from an obligation, debt, or liability, particularly the following. 1. Discharge of contract (see here the entry about this topic). 2. The release of a debtor from all [...]E-petitions
Introduction In the summer of 2011, the UK Government introduced a new website for registering e-petitions. Issues raised in e-petitions can reach the Backbench Business Committee of the Parliament. E-petitions are an easy, personal way for you to influence government and Parliament in the [...]Ecclesiastical Law
Definition of Ecclesiastical Law In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Ecclesiastical Law : (canon law, ecclesiastical law) Church law, such as the Roman Catholic Code of Canon Law and, in England, the law of the Church of England. Unless subsequently [...]Equity
Definition of Equity In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Equity : 1. That part of English law originally administered by the *Lord Chancellor and later by the *Court of Chancery, as distinct from that administered by the courts of *common law. The common [...]Escheat
History of Escheat Escheat, it has been said, “signifies the return of an estate to a lord, either on failure of issue from the tenant or upon account of such tenant’s felony.” (R. Thomson, Magna Charta, p. 236). This lucid description conveys a good general conception of escheat; but it [...]Estate
Estate Subsisting At Law Resources See Also See legal estate. Definition of Estate In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Estate : 1. (in land law) The character and duration of a person's ownership of land. For example, an estate in fee simple confers [...]Farm
Concept of Farm The following is an old definition of Farm [1], a term which has several meanings:1. Provision; rent; tenure by rent Alternative Meaning Land rented; land devoted to purposes of agriculture. Farm, or feorme, is an old Saxon word signifying provision. It came to be used instead [...]Fine
Definition of Fine In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Fine : 1. A sum of money that an offender is ordered to pay on convictio Most *summary offences are punishable by a fine with a fixed maximum, in accordance with a standard scale of five levels. These [...]Forest
Meaning of Forest The following is an old definition of Forest [1]: Forests were waste grounds, belonging to the king, replenished with beasts of chase, which are under his protection. For the preservation of the king's game there were particular laws, privileges, courts, and offices helong- [...]Forfeiture
Definition of Forfeiture In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Forfeiture : Loss of property or a right as a consequence of an offence or of the breach of an undertaking. There are three main situations in which the courts may order forfeiture of property. [...]Guardian
Definition of Guardian In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Guardian : One who is formally appointed to look after a child's interests when the parents of the child do not have *parental responsibility for him or have died. Appointment can be made either by [...]Halsburys Laws of England
Halsbury´s Laws of England Halsbury's Laws of England (4th and 5th editions) is the classic English legal encyclopedia. Halsbury's summarizes the law in essay form with citations to supporting statutes and cases in footnotes. It is a useful starting point for UK law. Halsbury’s Laws of [...]History of Magna Carta
The imminent danger of finding himself at war with his own rebellious barons persuaded -in accordance to Bamber Gascoigne´ Encyclopedia of Britain about “Magna Carta”- King John to fix his royal seal (on 15 June 1215 'in the meadow called Runnymede between Windsor and Staines') to this [...]House
Boarding-House: Legal History Boarding-House, a private house in which the proprietor provides board and lodging for paying guests. The position of a guest in a boarding-house differs in English law, to some extent, on the one hand from that of a lodger in the ordinary sense of the term, and [...]Hustings
Concept of Hustings The following is an old definition of Hustings [1], a term which has several meanings:1. A temporary court held for the election of members of parliament; also a court held in London before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, with jurisdiction over actions for the [...]Inns of Court
Introduction to Inns of Court Inns of Court, four institutions in London whose members comprise the bar of England and Wales. In order to become a barrister the aspirant must join an Inn as a student and dine in hall 18 times, as well as pass professional examinations, before being [...]Inquest
Inquest in North Ireland An inquiry into an unexplained death, conducted by a Coroner (sometimes sitting with a jury), to determine who died and in what circumstances, but without attributing criminal or civil liability to anyone who may have been responsible for the death. Meaning of Inquest [...]Judgment
Meaning of Judgment The following is an old definition of Judgment [1]: The saying of the law; the sentence of the law, pronounced by the court, upon the matter contained in the record. The determination of the law as the result of proceedings instituted in a court of justice. The final [...]Judgment Poll
English Law: Judgment Poll in the Past A record made of the issue roll, (see this concept in the corresponding entry on this reference) which, after final judgment has been given in the cause, assumes this name. Steph. Pl. 133. Vide Issue Roll. [1][rtbs name="history-of-english-law"] [...]Judicium Dei
English Law: Judicium Dei in the Past The judgment of God. There is further information on this topic in this legal reference. The English law formerly impiously called the judgments on trials by ordeal, by battle and the like, the judgments of God. [1][rtbs name="history-of-english-law"] [...]Jure, Writ Of
English Law: Jure, Writ of in the Past The name of a writ commanding the defendant to show by what right he demands common of pasture in the land of the complainant, who claims to have a fee in the same. F. N. B. 299. [1][rtbs name="history-of-english-law"] Resources Notes and References [...]Jus
Meaning of Jus (Latin Term) The following is an old definition of Jus (latin term) [1]: Kight; law, in the abstract; justice; jurisprudence. Plural, jura. Other forms are jure, juris. See below. Lex is law in the concrete sense. See Equity. Alieni juris. See Sui juris. Apex juris. A subtlety [...]Justices In Eyre
English Law: Justices in Eyre in the Past They were certain judges established if not first appointed, A. D. 1176, 22 Hen. II. England (see more about this legal system) was divided into certain circuits and three justices in eyre or justices itinerant, as they were sometimes called, were [...]Justiciarii Itinerantes
English Law: Justiciarii Itinerantes in the Past They were formerly justices, who were so called because they went from county to county to administer justice. They were usually called justices in eyre, (see this concept in the corresponding entry on this reference) to distinguish them from [...]Justiciarii Residentes
English Law: Justiciarii Residentes in the Past They were justices or judges, who usually resided in Westminster; they were so called to distinguish them from justices in eyre. Co. Litt. 293. Vide Justiciarii Itinerantes. [1][rtbs name="history-of-english-law"] Resources Notes and References [...]Justicies
English Law: Justicies in the Past The name of a writ which acquires its name from the mandatory words which it contains, "that you do A B justice." Developments The county court has jurisdiction in cases where damages (see more about this popular legal topic in the U.K. encyclopedia) are [...]Knight's Service
English Law: Knight's Service in the Past It was, formerly, a tenure of lands. Those who held by knight's service were called: milites qui per loricas terras suas defendunt;: soldiers who defend the country by their armor. There is further information on this topic in this legal reference. The [...]Land
Land in different occupation in the Building (Scotland) Act 2003 Meaning of Land in different occupation in the context of the Building (Scotland) Act 2003: in relation to a building, means land occupied, or to be occupied, by a person other than the occupier of the land on which the building [...]Lands
English Law: Lands in the Past According to the English law, all lands are held mediately or immediately from the king, as lord paramount and supreme proprietor of all the lands in the kingdom. Co. Litt. 1 b, 65 a; 2 Bl. Com. 105. Developments The ancient law about warranties of land was full [...]Latitat
English Law: Latitat in the Past He lies hid. There is further information on this topic in this legal reference. The name of a writ calling a defendant to answer to a personal action in the king's bench; it derives its name from a supposition that the defendant lurks and lies hid and cannot [...]Lay
English Law: Lay in the Past That which relates to people or things not ecclesiastical. In the United States of America the people are not, by law, divided, as in England (see more about this legal system) , into ecclesiastical and lay. There is further information on this topic in this legal [...]Leading Counsel
English Law: Leading Counsel in the Past When there are two or more counsel employed on the same side in a cause, The person who has the main management of the cause, is called the leading counsel, as distinguished from the other, who is called the junior counsel. [1][rtbs [...]Legitim
Note: the meaning is different from Legitimation. Legitim, or Bairn’s Part, in Scots law, the legal share of the movable property of a father due on his death to his children. If a father dies leaving a widow and children, the movable property is divided into three equal parts; one-third [...]Lestage
English Law: Lestage in the Past Duties paid for unlading goods in port. Harg. L. Tr. 75. [1][rtbs name="history-of-english-law"] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about lestage is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. There is a list of terms of the [...]Letter Missive
English Law: Letter Missive in the Past After a bill has been filed against a peer or peeress or lord of parliament, a petition is presented to the lord chancellor for his letter, called a letter missive, which asks the defendant to appear and answer to the bill. A neglect to attend to this, [...]Letters Close
English Law: Letters Close in the Past Close letters are grants, of the king and being of private concern, they are therefore, distinguished from letters patent. [1][rtbs name="history-of-english-law"] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about letters close is based on [...]Levari Facias
English Law: Levari Facias in the Past A writ of execution against the goods and chattels of a clerk. Also the writ of execvtion on a judgment at the suit of the crown. When issued against an ecclesiastic, this writ is in effect the writ of fieri facias directed to the bishop of the diocese, [...]Levying War
English Law: Levying War in the Past The assembling of a body of men for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable object; and all who perform any part however minute or however remote from the scene of action and who are leagued in the general conspiracy, are considered as engaged in [...]Liberty
English Law: Liberty in the Past In the English law, by liberty is meant a privilege held by grant or prescription, by which some men enjoy greater benefits than ordiuary subjects. A liberty is also a territory, with some extraordinary privilege. [1][rtbs name="history-of-english-law"] [...]List of Laboratory Animal Legislation
List of Laboratory Animal Law: Legal Control of the Use of Animals in Research Some early Acts (for example, the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876) are relevant to laboratory animal law but are no longer applicable, having been repealed. Some legislation dealing with animals, such as the Performing [...]Livery
English Law: Livery in the Past The delivery of possession of lands to those tenants who hold of the king in capite or knight's service. 2. Livery was also the name of a writ which lay for the heir of age, to get the possession of seisin of his lands at the king's hands. F. N. B. 155. 3. It [...]Lord
Concept of Lord The following is an old definition of Lord [1], a term which has several meanings:1. A feudal superior; one of whom an estate was held. He was a lord paramount or a lord paravail. Liege lord was contradistinguished from liege man. Landlord was originally used in this sense. See [...]Lords Spiritual
The 26 Lords Spiritual, also called Spiritual Peers are, in Great Britain, archbishops and bishops of the Anglican Church who are given seats in the House of Lords. These are the archbishops of Canterbury (the Primate of all England) and York, and 24 of the bishops. History The bishops of [...]Mace-bearer
English Law: Mace-bearer in the Past An officer attending the court of session. [1][rtbs name="history-of-english-law"] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about mace-bearer is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. There is a list of terms of the [...]Maile
English Law: Maile in the Past A small piece of money; it also signified a rent, because the rent was paid with maile. [1][rtbs name="history-of-english-law"] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about maile is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. There [...]Mainpernors
English Law: Mainpernors in the Past Those people to whom a man, is delivered out of custody or prison, on their becoming bound for his appearance. Developments Mainpernors differ from bail: a man's bail may imprison or surrender him up before the stipulated day of appearance; mainpernors can [...]Mainprise
English Law: Mainprise in the Past The taking a man into friendly custody, who might or be committed to prison, upon security given for his appearance at a time and place assigned. Wood's Inst. B. 4, c. 4. Developments Mainprise differs from bail in this, that a man's mainpernors are barely [...]Mandavi Ballivo
English Law: Mandavi Ballivo in the Past The return made by a sheriff (see law enforcement in the U.K. encyclopedia), when he has committed the execution of a writ to a bailiff of a liberty, who has the right to execute the writ. [1][rtbs name="history-of-english-law"] Resources Notes and [...]Manor
English Law: Manor in the Past This word is derived from the French manoir and signifies, a house, residence or habitation. At present its meaning is more enlarged and includes not only a dwelling-house, but also lands. Vide Co. Litt. 58, 108; 2 Roll. Ab. 121 Merl. Repert. mot Manoir. See [...]Manucaptio
English Law: Manucaptio in the Past In the English law it is a writ which lies for a man taken on suspicion of felony and the like, who cannot be admitted to bail by the sheriff (see law enforcement in the U.K. encyclopedia) or others having power to let to mainprise. F. N. B. 249. [1][rtbs [...]Marches
English Law: Marches in the Past This word signifies the limits or confines or borders. Bac. Law Tracts, tit. Jurisdiction of the Marches, p. 246. It was applied to the limits between England (see more about this legal system) and Wales or Scotland (see more about this legal system). In [...]Marshalsea
English Law: Marshalsea in the Past The name of a prison belonging to the court of the king's bench. [1][rtbs name="history-of-english-law"] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about marshalsea is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. There is a list of [...]Master At Common Law
English Law: Master at Common Law in the Past An officer of the superior courts of law, who has authority for taking affidavits sworn in court and administering a variety of oaths; and also allowed to compute main and interest on bills of exchange and other engagements, on which suit has been [...]Master of the Rolls
History Master of the Rolls, the third member of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England, the lord chancellor, president of the chancery division, being the first, and the lord chief justice, president of the king’s bench division, being the second. At first he was the principal clerk of [...]Matrimonial Causes Act
History The Act of 1857 Probably few measures have been conceived with such consummate skill and knowledge, and few conducted through parliament with such dexterity and determination. The leading opponent of the measure was Mr Gladstone, backed by the zeal of the High Church party and [...]Members
English Law: Members in the Past Places where a custom-house has been kept of old time, with officers or deputies in attendance; and they are lawful places of exportation or importation. 1 Chit. Com. L. 726. [1][rtbs name="history-of-english-law"] Resources Notes and References Partialy, [...]Micel Gemot
English Law: Micel Gemot in the Past In Saxon times, the great council of the nation bore this name, sometimes also called the witena gemot or assembly of wise men; in aftertimes, this assembly assumed the name of parliament. Vide 1 Bl. Comm. 147. [1][rtbs name="history-of-english-law"] [...]Michaelmas Term
English Law: Michaelmas Term in the Past One of the four terms of the courts; it begins on the 2d day of November and ends on the 25th of November. It was formerly a movable term. St. 11 G. IV. and 1 W. IV. 70. [1][rtbs name="history-of-english-law"] Resources Notes and References Partialy, [...]Mise
English Law: Mise in the Past In a writ of right which is intended to be tried by the grand assize, the general issue is called the mise. Lawes, Civ. Pl. 111; 7 Cowen, 51. This word also signifies expenses and it is so commonly used in the entries of judgments in personal actions; as when the [...]Monstrans de Droit
English Law: Monstrans de Droit in the Past Literally showing of right, in the English law, is a process by which a subject claim from the crown a restitution of a right. Bac. Ab. Prerogative, E; 3 Bl. 256; 1 And. 181; 5 Leigh's Reports 512. [1][rtbs name="history-of-english-law"] Resources [...]Moot
English Law: Moot in the Past A term used in the inns of court, signifying the exercise of arguing imaginary cases, which young barristers and students used to perform at certain times, the better to be allowd by this practice to defend their clients cases. A moot question is one which has not [...]Mort D'ancestor
English Law: Mort D'ancestor in the Past An ancient and now almost obsolete remedy in the English law. An assize of mort d'ancestor was a writ which was sued out where, after the decease of a man's ancestor, a stranger abated and entered into the estate. 1, Co. Litt. 159. There is further [...]Mortuaries
English Law: Mortuaries in the Past These are a sort of ecclesiastical heriots, being a usual gift claimed by and due to the minister, in many parishes, on the death of the parishioner. 2 Bl. Com. 425. [1][rtbs name="history-of-english-law"] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this [...]Murder
This section offers a description about Murder in the study of crimes in the English law. Meaning of Murder The following is an old definition of Murder [1]: The unlawful killing of another with malice. When a person of sound memory and discretion unlawfully killeth any reasonable creature in [...]Murdrum
English Law: Murdrum in the Past During the times of the Danes and afterwards till the reign of Edward III, murdrum was the killing of a man in a secret way and in that it differed from simple homicide. Developments When a man was therefore, killed and he was unknown, by the laws of Canute he [...]Narrow Seas
English Law: Narrow Seas in the Past Those seas which adjoin the coast of England (see more about this legal system). Bac. Ab. Prerogative, B 3. [1][rtbs name="history-of-english-law"] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about narrow seas is based on the Bouvier´s Law [...]Navigation Act
Navigation Act, 1651 The members of the Rump (Parliment), still the nominal rulers of England, finding opportunity for profit in the sale of royalist lands and in the administration of finance, had exasperated Cromwell by their maladministration and neglect of the public welfare. The [...]Ne Unjuste Vexes
English Law: Ne Unjuste Vexes in the Past The name of a writ which issued to relieve a tenant (see more about this popular legal topic in the U.K. encyclopedia) upon, whom his lord had distrained for more services than he was bound to perform. Developments It was a prohibition to the lord, [...]Non Concessit
English Law: Non Concessit in the Past The name of a plea by which the defendant denies that the crown granted to the plaintiff by letters patent, the rights which he claims as a concession from the king; as, for example, when a plaintiff sues another for the infringement of his patent right, [...]Non Conformists
English Law: Non Conformists in the Past A name given to certain dissenters from the rites and ceremonies of the church of England (see more about this legal system). [1][rtbs name="history-of-english-law"] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about non conformists is [...]Non Jurors
English Law: Non Jurors in the Past people who refuse to take the oaths, needd by law, to support the government. 1 Dall. 170. [1][rtbs name="history-of-english-law"] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about non jurors is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 [...]Non Obstante
English Law: Non Obstante in the Past These words, which literally signify despite, are used to express the act of the English king, by which he dispenses with the law, that is, authorizes its violation. Developments He cannot by his license or dispensation make an offence dispunishable which [...]Nuper Obiit
English Law: Nuper Obiit in the Past He or she lately died. There is further information on this topic in this legal reference. The name of a writ, which in the English law, lies for a sister co-heiress, dispossessed by her coparcener of lands and tenements, wof this their father, brother or [...]Office Found
English Law: Office Found in the Past When an inquisition is made to the king's use of anything, by virtue of office of him who inquires and the inquisition is found, it is said to be office found. [1][rtbs name="history-of-english-law"] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this [...]Officina Justitiae
English Law: Officina Justitiae in the Past The chancery is so called, because all writs issue from it, under the great seal returnable into the courts of common law. [1][rtbs name="history-of-english-law"] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about officina justitiae [...]Ordinance
Concept of Ordinance The following is an old definition of Ordinance [1], a term which has several meanings:1. A rule or regulation adopted by municipal corporation. See Ordain, 1. An ordinance of the councils of a municipality, though binding upon the community affected by it, is not a law in [...]Original Writ
English Law: Original Writ in the Past A mandatory letter issued in the king's name, sealed with his great seal and directed to the sheriff (see law enforcement in the U.K. encyclopedia) of the county where the injury (see more about this popular legal topic in the U.K. encyclopedia) was [...]In Perpetual Beta
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