ENCYCLOPÆDIA

OF THE

LAWS OF ENGLAND

VOLUME XII

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EDITORS

A. WOOD RENTON, Esq., PUISNE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT

OF CEYLON

MAX. A. ROBERTSON, Esq., OF THE INNER TEMPLE AND THE

MIDLAND CIRCUIT, BARRISTER-AT-LAW

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Printed by WILLIAM GRREN & Sons, Edinburgh

August 1908

OF THE

LAWS OF ENGLAND

WITH FORMS AND PRECEDENTS

BY THE

MOST EMINENT LEGAL AUTHORITIES

SECOND EDITION

REVISED AND ENLARGED

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THE AUTHORS OF THE PRINCIPAL ARTICLES IN THIS

VOLUME ARE AS FOLLOWS:

(Square brackets indicate that the article has not been revised by the original author.

In these articles square brackets throughout the text indicate new matter added to the original article.]

An asterisk (*) indicates that Forms or Precedents are appended to the article.

Profits à Prendre.- J. Leybourn Goddard. [C. Johnston Edwards.]

Prohibition.-G. H. B. Kenrick.

Promissory Note.-D. M. Kerly. [Geoffrey Ellis.]

Prosecution.-W. F. Craies.

Protectorate.---Alexander Pulling.

Protector of the Settlement.-J. D. Israel. [C. Johnston Edwards.]

Provisional Order.-W. Blake Odgers, K.C., and E. J. Naldrett.
Publication (In Cases of Defamation).—W. Blake Odgers, K.C.

Public Authorities Protection Act.--Max. A. Robertson.

*Public Company.-W. Bowstead. Public Health.-J. V. Vesey FitzGerald, K.C. Public Policy.-R. F. Graham Campbell. [A. Wood Renton, Puisne Justice of the

Supreme Court of Ceylon, and J. S. Henderson.]

Public Stores.-H. Leigh Ormsby.

Public Worship Regulation Act.-G. G. Phillimore.

Purchaser for Value without Notice.-W. F. Phillpotts. [C. Johnston Edwards.]
Quantum meruit.-D. M. Kerly. [N. G. L. Child.]