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15 May 2014 / Roderick Ramage
Issue: 7606 / Categories: Features
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Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary by Roderick Ramage

Agricultural products—grade descriptions

If, by s1(2) of the Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act 1928, a grade description as prescribed is applied to a product on its sale, the contract is deemed to include a term that it accords with the statutory definition. Grade descriptions exist for (in the chronological order of the regulations): potatoes, cider, Cheshire cheese, canned fruits, jam, stilton cheese, creamery butter, perry, bottled fruits, bottled vegetables, cheddar cheese, dressed poultry, malt extract and malt flour, derby cheese, wheat flour and wheat flakes, fruit products, Lancashire cheese, canned vegetables, Leicester cheese, Wensleydale cheese, cream cheese, beef, Caerphilly cheese and Gloucester cheese.

Annulling bankruptcy

In 1993 Mr Sallis was made bankrupt owing £2.4m to Barclays Bank and was discharged in 1996. In 2007, aged 65, he wished to take his benefits under his pension plans, for which he needed to have his bankruptcy annulled. The deputy registrar refused his application on the

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