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Compositions for Stamp Duty upon Bank Notes.-Banks and bankers allowed to compound for stamps upon their notes (5840), and bills (5924) the following terms :

Bank of England, on each £1,000,000 of bills in £ 3. d.
circulation.

Other bankers, for every £100 or fractional part of
100 of the average amount or value of notes or
bills in circulation during every half-year :

England and Ireland

Scotland-Notes

3500 0 0

626

House Agents' Licences.-House agents letting houses at an annual re exceeding £25 are required to take out an excise licence, costing £2 *

annum.

Y

Suing by Minors. In the County Courts the right of minors is limited suing for wages only, and the amount must not exceed £20.

Accidental insurance (contd.):| Accounts of companies (con.):

hernia and, 12079-80.
indirect causes and, 12076.
interest essential to, 12057.
liability to danger and, 12069.
liberality of, 12089.
modern, 12056. [12087.
narrow interpretations of,
policies of, 12067-8.

railways and, see "Railway
insurance.'

"

recklessness and, 12092.
solicitors and, 12088.
spinal affections and, 12081.
suicide and, 12093.
sunstroke and, 12082.
surgical expenses, 12091.
tickets for, see "Railway
insurance."
[12077.
unexpected danger and,
variable premiums for, 12073.
violence contemplated by,
12078.

void policies of, 12075. Accidents:

agreements and, 12520. carriers and, 10490.

employers and, 98or

printed balance-sheets of,

stock-in-trade and, 7273-
summaries of,

[7212.

7279.

Accounts of old companies,
Accounts of partnerships, 6776,
6785, 6909.

Accounts of winding up:
final, 8172-8176.
Accoutrements:
pawning of, 6152.
Accumulated risks:
fire insurance and, 11811.
Accumulations as nuisances,
8602.

Acknowledgments by married
women, 2240-2285.
Acknowledgments of debts:
limitations and, 6624, 6634-
part payment as, 5730. [42.
qualified, 5731. [5733-
subsequent disputes about,
successive payments as, 5732.
tenders are, 5725.
14635-

railway, see "Railway ac- Acorns and emblements, 753,

cidents,"

to horses, 612. to pawns, 6240. wills and, 3904. Accommodation

partners, 6804. Accountants:

bills and

Acquiescence:

in divorce cases, 3602, 3607.
in life policies, 11993-4-
in neglects of servants, 9925.
in voidable marriages, 1731.
Actions:

9352.

against trespasses, 8418.
for double rent, 9420.
for nuisances, 8609.
kinds of, 1584.
nuisances after, 8618.
nuisances before, 8617.
Actions for rent: 9344-
challenge of distress and,
[9352.
contending landlords and,
distress and, 9352.
fire and, 9353..
illegal occupations and,9350.
illicit trades and, 9350.
infamous professions and,
[9344.
insufficient property and,
mortgages and, 9351.
notices to tenants and, 9351.
original tenants and, 9346.
refusal of tender and, 9348.
replevin and, 9352.
sales and, 935.
underletting and, 9346.
under tenants and, 9347.
use and occupation and,
vain defences to, 9353. [9349.
Actresses who are minors,
earnings of, 3205-8.
Acts constituting partnerships,
6720,

9350.

13359

declarations of inscre as, 13560-6. defaults as, 1335

defeat of crediton 3.17 essential to procu

13332 executions and, going abroad and 15 keeping house an-, 1554 outlawry and, KERES particulars of 13274, remaining abroad andme set forth in the Act m set off barred by, anise six months volds, 153 Acts of cruelty:

definition of, 3412

sufficient. 3430-9

Acts of God, carries -
Addison on pin money
Additions to lists of c

tories, Ec3, E641 Additions to nars, of cate

panies, 7529-32. Addresses:

notices of dishone of shareholders, 7047 Adhesive stamps: for deed seals, 12715 for stamp duty, 12

not available for tus= notes, 86. Adjoining houses: deeds and, 12701. Adjournment of arbitrato Adjournments of meeting 7226, 7223 Administration:

as affected by marriage" by widowers of wives see rate estate, 2507, 2317deceased sailors and,

4572 1455deceased soldiers and, 45% duty, see "Prebate duny liquidators entitled to s renewed, 4615

see also Letters of Administration." Administration bonds: 453additional, 4541. always required, 4533 discretion of register cen

cerning amount of, 45:" double amount of ext

Administration bonds (contd.): | Administrators (contd.):

one surety for, 4535.
only one-thirtieth for, 4540
two sureties for, 4535.
variable circumstances con-
cerning, 4539.
Administrators: 4373.

absolved from consequences
of will found, 4548.
after administration virtu-
ally executors, 4609.
agreements and, 12540-5.
aunts as, 4393-

bound to proceed, 4523-4.
brothers as, 4391, 4399.
children and, see "Child-
children as, 4387, 4397. [ren."
creditors as, 4395, 4400-I.
deeds and, 12697.

[rals."

definition of, 4279.
descendants as, 4389.
disqualifications as, 4382.
distinguished from execu-
duties of, 4596. [tors, 4608.
fathers as, 4390.
funerals and, see "Fune-
grandchildren as, 4388.
grandfathers and grand-
mothers as, 4392.
great-grandchildren as,4389.
great-grandfathers

and

great grandmothers as,
in agreements, 8295. [4393.
in leases, 8324. [tute, 4378.
inoperative acts to consti-
intestate estates and, 4799.
liabilities of, 4596.

liability to removal of, 4380.
liable to Court of Probate,
4404-5.

life policies and, 12018.
limitation of powers of,

4403-5.

4393, 4399.

limited to necessaries, 4402.
mothers as, 4390.
nephews and nieces as,
[4384.
next of kin entitled as,
of executors, 4614.
operative acts constituting,
opposition to, 4069.
[4379.
penalties of, 4523. [ing, 4377.
preliminary acts constitut-
priority of claim as, 4383.
probate and, 4457, see also
"Probate." [of, 4402-3.
provisional acts and powers
qualifications as, 4381.
railway accidents and, 10847.
remote kindred as,4394,4401.
removal of, 4380.

renunciation by, 4517-21.
residues and, 4798-9.
shares and, 7199.
sisters as, 4391.

special order of title as, 4385.

statute of distributions and,
see Statute of Distribu-
tions."

transfers of shares and, 8011.
uncles as, 4393.
void acts of, 4547-
votes in favour of, 8012.
when executors refuse office,
4375-6.

when no executor, 4374.
when no will, 4373-
widowers and, 4804.
widowers and widows as,
4386, 4396.

widows as, see "Widows."
see also "Executors."
Admiralty;

appraisements for the, 11511.
Admissions:

limitations and, 6644, 6653.
Admissions to court:

stamp law and, 12884.
Adopted names,

for notes,
bills, and acceptances,
Adultery: 3342. [5958-9.

a certain plea, 3342.
admission of, 3585.
after marriage, 3579.
against desertion, 3581.
aggravated, 3788-92.
and desertion, 3792, 3801..
as a ground for judicial
separation, 3328, 3342.
before marriage, 3580.
belief of, 3347.
bigamous, 3794-9.
[tery."
See also Bigamous adul-
by husbands, 3788-3802.
by petitioners, see "Adul-
tery by petitioner."
by wives, 3576. [nation."
condonation of, see "Condo-
conduct contributingto, 3608.
confession of, 3351. [vance."
connivance at, see "Conni-
counter charges of, 3354-
defence against, 3354, 3583.
denial of, 3583.

evidence of, 3343, 3582.
fatal to petitioners for judi-
cial separation, 3354.
forgiveness of, 3622. [3610.
imprudence concerning,
incestuous, 3789.

incidental evidence of, 3346.
indifference to, 3596, 3614.
ineffectual charges of, 3345.
inevitable penalty of, 3587.
is not cruelty, 3369-70.
no justification for, 3586.
no power to compel attend-
ance of party guilty of,
3353.

no proof needed of, 3343.
non-interference wi

3606.

distress for rent in, 9031.
rent in, 9030-3.
Advanced sons, 2302.
Advancements: 4818.
advowsons as, 4820.
annuities as, 4822.

apprentices and, 4830-1.
army commissions as, 4821.
assistance in business as,
benefices as, 4820.

certain, 4838-9.

[4825.

church preferments, 4820.
complete, 4838.
definition of, 4818.
education and, 4809.
estimates of, 4841-2.
heirs at law and, 4835-7.
hotchpot and, see "Hotch-
land and, 4832-7. [pot."
mortmain and, 4217.
offices as, 4819.
partial, 4839.

presents as, 4827-8.
prospective advantages as,
settlements as, 4823. [4824.
speculations as, 4826.
troublesome, 4840.
uncertain, 4840.

younger children and, 4834.
Advances to pawnors, 6248.
Advantage of position:

railway tolls and, 10807.
Advertisements:
by executors, 4736-7.
by husbands, 2217.
distress for rent and, 9324.
exonerating individual part-
ners, 6992.

names of companies in, 7479.
of close of bankruptcy,
13672-3.

of composition and liquida.
tions, 13445, 13262.
of discontinuance of agency,
11679.
[7038.
of dissolution of partnership,
ot limited liability, 6927.