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Alias (dictus)

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Alias (dictus) (otherwise called), a second name applied to a person where he has been styled or has styled himself by more names than one, as in the case of Reg. v. Thomas Castro, otherwise Arthur Orton, otherwise Sir Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne, Baronet, (1873) LR 9 QB 219.

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