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  • Parliamentary Financial Procedures

    History The whole law of finance, and consequently the whole British constitution, is grounded upon one fundamental principle, laid down at the very outset of English parliamentary history and secured by three hundred years of mingled conflict with the Crown and peaceful growth. All taxes and […]

  • Termination of Contract

    Buyer’s Right to Termination of Contract Note: see the Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 1980. Statutes Sale of Goods Act 1979 as amended in 1994 and 1995. Judicial Decisions Afovos Shipping Co. v. Pagnan [1983] 1 W.L.R. 195. Agricultores […]

  • Martial Law

    History “Martial law” is an unfortunate term and in a sense a misnomer. It describes a suspension of ordinary law, rendered necessary by circumstances of war or rebellion. The confusion arose from the fact that the marshal’s court administered military law before the introduction of articles […]

  • Public Sector Information

    Public Sector Information Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015 The EU Directive on the Re-use of Public Sector Information, adopted by the European Union in June 2013, was implemented and transposed into UK law as the Re-use of Public Sector Regulations 2015. The 2015 Regulations are in force from 18 July 2015. The Public…

  • Architecture

    Compartment floor in the Building (Scotland) Act 2003 Meaning of Compartment floor in the context of the Building (Scotland) Act 2003: a floor with the fire resistance required to ensure compartmentation. Sub-compartment in the Building (Scotland) Act 2003 Meaning of Sub-compartment in the […]

  • Burglary

    Definition of Burglary Sec 9 of the theft act 1978 defines the offence of burglary. In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Burglary : The offence, under the Theft Act 1968, of either entering a building, ship, or inhabited vehicle (e.g. a caravan) as a […]

  • Local Government Board

    Local Government Board History Set up in 1871 it took over responsibility for all aspects of local government from various ministries and the Poor Law Board. Succeeded by the Ministry of Health in 1919. In this issue about local government board, the book English Poor Law Policy [1] reads as […]

  • Anglo Saxon

    This issue under the Ruling of the Anglo Saxons et seq Royal Charters and Writs of Proclamation Anglo Saxon and Medieval Law Anglo Saxon and Legal History Legal Materials (Compiled by the University of South Caroline Gould School of Law) Birch, Walter de Gray, ed. and trans. The Historical […]

  • Statute

    Definition of Statute In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Statute : (Act of Parliament, statute) A document that sets out legal rules and has (normally) been passed by both Houses of *Parliament in the form of a *Bill and agreed to by the Crown (See […]

  • Acknowledgment

    Definition of Acknowledgment In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Acknowledgment : 1. The admission that a debt is due or a claim exists. Under the Limitation Act 1980, a written acknowledgment by a debtor or his agent causes the debt to be treated as if it […]

  • Statutory Instruments Legislation

    The pieces of legislation are: The Statutory Instruments Act 1946 The Statutory Instruments Regulations 1947 The Statutory Instruments (Confirmatory Powers) Order 1947 The Laying of Documents before Parliament (Interpretation) Act 1948 The Statutory Instruments […]

  • Statistics of Divorce

    Before 1910 Note: for an oveview of the history of divorce, click here. The statistics of divorce in England have for some years been regularly published in the volumes of judicial statistics published annually by the Home Office. The number of petitions for divorce (including in the term […]

  • Special Procedure Orders

    Introduction ‘Special procedure order’ means an order, scheme, certificate or byelaws in relation to which the Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act 1945 as amended by the Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act 1965. Note: The following information is intended to provide information […]

  • Regnal Years

    British Regnal Years British Regnal Years, with date of accession and years in reign Acts under the Regnal Year System Prior to 1963, Acts of Parliament were numbered using the year of the sovereign’s reign in which the Act was passed, a system known as regnal years. Under the regnal year […]

  • Tax System History

    Note: there is some information about the history of direct taxation here; and on the history of indirect taxation here. The direct taxation took the shape of a “monthly assessment” which was fixed from time to time, and which was collected under strict regulations, in marked contrast to […]