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carbon 14

Matched in: Term carbon 14

Esperons

Esperons. Spurs, 7 Rep. 13.

Distress

(8) Gas-meters, being the property of a gas company incorporated by statute, by 10 Vict. c. 15, s. 14; (9) Railway rolling stock in works not belonging to any tenant thereof, by the (English) Railway Rolling Stock … may within thirty days take and seize such goods wherever found (11 Geo. 2, c. 19, ss. 1-3, 7). All chattels and personal effects found upon the premises may be distrained by a landlord, with the following

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Satisfied on the evidence

John White v. Kathleen Olive White, AIR 1958 SC 441 (444): (1958) SCR 1410. (Divorce Act, 1869, ss. 14, 7)

Nudum pactum est ubi nulla subest causa pr'ter conventionem; sed ubi subest causa, fit obligatio, et parit actionem

it becomes an obligation, and gives a right of action.) Similarly, Nuda pactio obligationem non parit. Dig. 2, 14, 7, s. 4, (A naked promise does not be get an obligation); and ex nudo pacto non oritur actio.

Draw-latches

Draw-latches, thieves, robbers, wasters, and roberdsmen, 5 Edw. 3, c. 14; 7 Rich. 2, c. 5.

Malitia supplet 'tatem

Dyer, 104 b.-(Malice supplies [the want of] age); as in the case of a child between 7 & 14 years of age, who can be convicted of a crime if, and if only, it be affirmatively shown

Whipping

few American States, consisting of inflicting long welts on the skin, esp. with a whip, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1590. The punishment was abolished for females by 1 Geo. 4, c. 57. As to the

Limitation of actions and prosecutions

acknowledgment by the debtor or appropriation of payments, but not by way of set-off (9 Geo. 4, c. 14, s. 3). In regard to land, the right to it is destroyed after the statutory period and neither … (English) Civil Procedure Act (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27) [see Read v. Price, (1909) 2 KB 724], and 37 & 38 Vict. c. 57, the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1874, certain periods are fixed

Penalty

term of imprisonment, N.K. Jain v. C.K. Shah, AIR 1991 SC 1289. [Employees' Provident Fund Act, 1952, s. 14] Means recovery of an amount as a penal measure in civil proceedings, or an exaction which is not … is to be gathered from the language they have used', Lea v. Whitaker, (1872) LR 8 CP p. 73, per Keating, J. The words are not conclusive; the essence of penalty is a payment stipulated as in

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