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Liquidated damages
Liquidated damages, the amount agreed upon by a party to a contract to be paid as compensation for the breach of it, and intended to be recovered, whether the actual damages sustained by the breach be...
Lost document
Lost document. The ordinary rule is that a document is proved by the production of the original, but on proof that a document has been destroyed, or cannot be found after a proper search made, it...
Malicious prosecution
Malicious prosecution, a prosecution, preferred maliciously, without reasonable or probable cause; the remedy is an action on the case, in which damages may be recovered. The allegation of want of probable cause must be substantively and...
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Maritime lien
Maritime lien, is well defined to mean a claim or privilege upon a thing to be carried into effect by legal process, that process to be a proceeding in rem ...... This claim or privilege travels...
Market
Fairs Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 14); (English) Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Acts, 1886 to 1926. As to disturbance of market, see Goldsmid v. Great Eastern Railway Co., (1884) 9 App Cas
Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in...
Midwife
Midwife. A person following the profession of delivering women of children. The (English) Medical Act, 1886, by s. 3 requires as a qualification for registration as a medical practitioner, and for the recovery of
Physician
v. Makuna, (1885) 29 Ch D 596. The Act of 1858 was amended by the (English) Medical Act, 1886 (49 & 50 Vict. c. 48); by s. 6 of this Act a physician may recover his fees
Notice
Notice, the making something known to a person of which he was or might be ignorant. Notice is either (1) statutory; (2) actual, which brings the knowledge of a fact directly home to the party; or...
House, shop or building
House, shop or building, includes any premises appurtenant to the building (English) Riot (Dam-ages) Act, 1886, s. 9 [Halsbury's Law of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 36, para 242].
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