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henry viii clausenoun(Australia, India, New Zealand, UK) A provision in a bill before Parliament, that if enacted as an Act, would enable the Government to amend (including repeal) the Act or other primary legislation by secondary legislation.
private notice questionnoun(UK politics) A topical question asked of the government by a member of the House of Lords, requiring an immediate response.
bill of rightsnoun(law) A formal statement of the rights of a specified group of people.
statutory instrumentnoun(UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, law) In some common law jurisdictions, a form of delegated legislation enacted under a power derived from an act of parliament.
ordinancenoun(US) A local law, passed by e.g. a city.
lp(mp)a 1989noun(property law, England and Wales) Initialism of Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989.
reservationnounAn arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
lpmpa 1989noun(property law, England and Wales) Initialism of Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989.
lp(mp)anoun(property law, England and Wales) Initialism of Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989.
pontagenoun(UK, law, obsolete) A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.
purveyancingnoun(British) The requisitioning of goods and services for royal use.
bona vacantianoun(UK, law) The principle that there is no unowned property, and that if there is no other owner then property vests in the Crown.
preceptnounA rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
rule of recognitionnoun(law) A notion of what should "count" as law.
rule against perpetuitiesnoun(law, singular only) The rule that prevents a testator or other transferor of property from controlling further transfer of his property more than twenty-one years after the death of anyone alive at the time of the original transfer who may have some interest in the transfer.
lpmpanoun(property law, England and Wales) Initialism of Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989.
petition of rightnoun(UK, law, historical) A remedy available to subjects to recover property from the Crown.
lotus principlenoun(law) The principle, in international law, that sovereign states may act in any way they wish as long as they do not contravene an explicit prohibition.
ordre publicnounIn international law, law and order.
purveyancenounThe act of purveying.

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