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Administration Of Justice Act 1696
The Administration of Justice Act 1696 ( 8 & 9 Will. 3. c. 11) was an act of the Parliament of England, originally titled ''An Act for the better preventing of frivolous and vexatious Suits.'' Repeals Sections 1 to 3 and 5 to 7 were repealed by section 2 of, and part II of the schedule to, the Civil Procedure Acts Repeal Act 1879 ( 42 & 43 Vict. c. 59). This repeal did not operate in respect of any court other than the Supreme Court of Judicature in England. Sections 1 to 3 and 5 to 7 were repealed by section 4 of the Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act 1883. But see section 7 of that Act as to the Lancaster Palatine Court and the inferior civil courts (now abolished). Sections 99(1)(f) and (g) of, and schedule 1 to, the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 provided that the whole Act, so far as unrepealed, could be repealed by rules of court made under section 99 of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1925. Section 4 was repealed by section 2 of, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Title
In certain jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom and other Westminster system, Westminster-influenced jurisdictions (such as Canada or Australia), as well as the United States and the Philippines, primary legislation has both a short title and a long title. The long title (properly, the title in some jurisdictions) is the formal title appearing at the head of a statute (such as an act of Parliament or of act of Congress, Congress) or other legislative instrument. The long title is intended to provide a summarised description of the purpose or scope of the instrument. Like other descriptive components of an act (such as the preamble, section headings, side notes, and short title), the long title seldom affects the operative provisions of an act, except where the operative provisions are unclear or ambiguous and the long title provides a clear statement of the legislature's intention. The short title is the formal name by which legislation may by law be Legal citation, cited. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancaster Palatine Court
The Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster was a court of chancery that exercised jurisdiction within the County Palatine of Lancaster until it was merged with the High Court and abolished in 1972. Constitution By a charter of Edward III dated the 6 March 1351, there was granted for life to Henry, Duke of Lancaster (inter alia), a court of chancery, a chancellor, and such other jura regalia in the county of Lancaster as pertained to a count palatine. On 28 February 1377, a similar charter was granted for the term of his life to John, King of Castile and Leon, Duke of Lancaster. On 16 February 1390, Richard II by charter granted these jura regalia to the Duke of Lancaster and his heirs male. Henry IV on his accession by a charter of the 14 October 1399, declared that these jura regalia were not to be changed by the King's accession and severed the Duchy from the Crown, the reason being that he had the Duchy by a sure and indefeasible title, but specially because hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halsbury's Statutes
''Halsbury's Statutes of England and Wales'' (commonly referred to as ''Halsbury's Statutes'') provides updated texts of every Public General Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, Measure of the Welsh Assembly, or Church of England Measure currently in force in England and Wales (and to various extents in Scotland and Northern Ireland), as well as a number of private and local Acts, with detailed annotations to each section and schedule of each Act. It incorporates the effects of new Acts of Parliament and secondary legislation into existing legislation to provide a consolidated "as amended" text of the current statute book. ''Halsbury's Statutes'' was created in 1929. The full title of this work was ''The Complete Statutes of England Classified and Annotated in Continuation of Halsbury’s Laws of England and for ready reference entitled Halsbury’s Statutes of England''. As indicated by the title, the new work was to be a companion to ''Halsbury’s Laws of Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Administration Of Justice Act
Administration of Justice Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom relating to the administration of justice. The Bill for an Act with this short title may have been known as a Administration of Justice Bill during its passage through Parliament. Administration of Justice Acts may be a generic name either for legislation bearing that short title or for all legislation which relates to procedural law. List United Kingdom :The Administration of Justice Act 1696 ( 8 & 9 Will. 3. c. 25) :The Administration of Justice Act 1705 ( 4 & 5 Ann. c. 3) :The Administration of Justice Act 1774 ( 14 Geo. 3. c. 39) :The Administration of Justice Act 1813 ( 53 Geo. 3. c. 24) :The Administration of Justice Act 1841 ( 5 Vict. c. 5) :The Administration of Justice Act 1920 ( 10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 81) :The Administration of Justice Act 1925 ( 15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 28) :The Administration of Justice Act 1928 ( 18 & 19 Geo. 5. c. 26) :The Administratio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penalties In English Law
Penalties in English law are contractual terms which are not enforceable in the courts because of their penal character. Since at least 1720''Peachy v Duke of Somerset'' (1720) 1 Strange 447. it has been accepted as a matter of English contract law that if a provision in a contract constitutes a penalty, then that provision is unenforceable by the parties. However, the test for what constitutes a penalty has evolved over time. The Supreme Court most recently restated the law in relation to contractual penalties in the co-joined appeals of '' Cavendish Square Holding BV v Talal El Makdessi'', and ''ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis''. The law relating to contractual penalties in England has been entirely developed by judges at common law without general statutory intervention. The Supreme Court has noted that " e penalty rule in England is an ancient, haphazardly constructed edifice which has not weathered well". However, in addition to the common law rules relating to penal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damages (law)
At common law, damages are a remedy in the form of a monetary award to be paid to a claimant as compensation for loss or injury. To warrant the award, the claimant must show that a breach of duty has caused foreseeable loss. To be recognized at law, the loss must involve damage to property, or mental or physical injury; pure economic loss is rarely recognized for the award of damages. Compensatory damages are further categorized into special damages, which are economic losses such as loss of earnings, property damage and medical expenses, and general damages, which are non-economic damages such as pain and suffering and emotional distress. Rather than being compensatory, at common law damages may instead be nominal, contemptuous or exemplary. History Among the Saxons, a monetary value called a ''weregild'' was assigned to every human being and every piece of property in the Salic Code. If property was stolen or someone was injured or killed, the guilty person had to pay the wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clydebank Engineering & Shipbuilding Company
John Brown and Company of Clydebank was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding firm. It built many notable and world-famous ships including , , , , , and ''Queen Elizabeth 2''. At its height, from 1900 to the 1950s, it was one of the most highly regarded, and internationally famous, shipbuilding companies in the world. However thereafter, along with other UK shipbuilders, John Brown's found it increasingly difficult to compete with the emerging shipyards in Eastern Europe and the far East. In 1968 John Brown's merged with other Clydeside shipyards to form the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders consortium, but that collapsed in 1971. The company then withdrew from shipbuilding but its engineering arm remained successful in the manufacture of industrial gas turbines. In 1986 it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Trafalgar House (company), Trafalgar House, which in 1996 was taken over by Kvaerner. The latter closed the Clydebank engineering works in 2000. Marathon Manufacturing C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Lords
The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the lower house, the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. One of the oldest extant institutions in the world, its origins lie in the early 11th century and the emergence of bicameralism in the 13th century. In contrast to the House of Commons, membership of the Lords is not generally acquired by Elections in the United Kingdom, election. Most members are Life peer, appointed for life, on either a political or non-political basis. House of Lords Act 1999, Hereditary membership was limited in 1999 to 92 List of excepted hereditary peers, excepted hereditary peers: 90 elected through By-elections to the House of Lords, internal by-elections, plus the Earl Marshal and Lord Great Chamberlain as members Ex officio member, ''ex officio''. No members directly inherit their seats any longer. The House of Lords also includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Chancellor
The Lord Chancellor, formally titled Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom. The lord chancellor is the minister of justice for England and Wales and the highest-ranking Great Officers of State (United Kingdom), Great Officer of State in Scotland and England, nominally outranking the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime minister. The lord chancellor is appointed and dismissed by the British monarchy, sovereign on the advice of the prime minister. Prior to the Acts of Union 1707, union of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain, there were separate lord chancellors for the Kingdom of England (including Wales) and the Kingdom of Scotland. Likewise, the Lordship of Ireland and its successor states (the Kingdom of Ireland and History of Ireland (1801–1923), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) maintained the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland, lord chancellor of Ireland u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Court Of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925
The Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 ( 15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 49), sometimes referred to as the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1925, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Provisions Section 99 Section 99 of the act was replaced by section 84 of the Supreme Court Act 1981. The power conferred by this section was exercised by the Criminal Appeal (Reference of Points of Law) Rules 1973 ( SI 1973/1114).Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice. 1999. Paragraph 7-301 at page 975. Short title, commencement and extent Section 227(1) of the act provided that the act may be cited as the "Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925". Section 227(2) of the act provided that the act would come into force on 1 January 1926. Legacy The whole act was repealed by section 152(4) of, and schedule 7 to, the Supreme Court Act 1981. See also * Supreme Court of Judicature Act Notes References *Halsbury's Statutes ''Halsbury' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courts Of England And Wales
The Courts of England and Wales, supported administratively by His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service, are the civil and criminal courts responsible for the administration of justice in England and Wales. Except in constitutional matters, committed to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom does not generally have a single unified legal system—England and Wales have one system, Scotland another, and Northern Ireland a third. There are additional exceptions to this rule; for example, in immigration law, the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal's jurisdiction covers the whole of the United Kingdom, while in employment law, there is a single system of employment tribunals for England, Wales, and Scotland but not Northern Ireland. Additionally, the Military Court Service has jurisdiction over all members of the armed forces of the United Kingdom in relation to offences against military law. The Court of Appeal, the High Court, the Crown Court, the County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Statute Law Revision Act 1948
The Statute Law Revision Act 1948 ( 11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 62) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Section 5(3) of the Statute Law Revision Act 1950 provided that this act, so far as it repealed chapter 34 of the Statute of Westminster 1285 ( 13 Edw. 1. St. 1. c. 34), was to be deemed not to have extended to Northern Ireland. Section 1: Enactments in schedule repealed Section 1 of the act provided, amongst other things, that the enactments described in schedule 1 to this act were repealed, subject to the provisions of this act and subject to the exceptions and qualifications in that schedule. Section 1 of the act was repealed by group 1 oPart XVIof Schedule 1 to the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993. The enactments which were repealed (whether for the whole or any part of the United Kingdom) by this act were repealed so far as they extended to the Isle of Man on 25 July 1991. Enactments repealed in full * Henry III ** 20 Hen. 3. c. 2 ** 20 Hen. 3. c. 9 ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
