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abridge abridged abridg·ing : to diminish or reduce in scope [no State shall make or enforce any law which shall the privileges and immunities of the citizens of the United States "U.S. Constitution amend. XIV"] abridg·ment or abridge·ment n ...
Enlargement or abridgement of time
Enlargement or abridgement of time, Order VI, r. 2(14) of the Supreme Court Rules, 1966 speaks of applications for enlargement or abridgement of time. Here the words 'enlargement or abridgement of time' take in applications for enlargement of time appointed by the Rules. The significant feature in the Rules is that applications for condonation of delay in filing special leave petition are excepted from the business of a Chamber Judge. The natural presumption is that but for the exception the Rule would have included also applications for condonation of delay in filing special leave petitions. Any application for con-donation of delay in filing petition of appeal is included in application for enlargement or abridge-ment of time, C.I.T., Bombay City v. R.H. Pandit, Managing Trustees of Trust, Bombay (1974) 2 SCC 627: AIR 1974 SC 2269: (1975) 2 SCR 7....
Abridge
Abridge [fr. abreger, Fr., abbreviare, Lat.], to make shorter in words retaining the substance. Also the making a declaration or count shorter by subtracting or severing some of the substance therefrom, i.e., a man was said to abridge his plaint in assize, and a woman her demand in action of dower, where any land was put into the plaint or demand which was not in the tenure of the defendant; for if the defendant pleaded non-tenure, joint-tenancy, or the like, in abatement of the writ as to part of the lands, and plaintiff might leave out those lands, and pray that the tenant might answer to the rest, Brooke, tit. 'Abridgment.' Now obsolete in consequence of the abolition of real and mixed actions, by the (English) Real Property Limitations Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27), s. 36, and the (English) Common Law Procedure Act, 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. C. 126), s. 26....
Abridgment, or Digests of the Law
Abridgment, or Digests of the Law, of ancient authority. The principal of these are Statham's, Brooke's, Fitzherbert's, and Rolle's Abridgments, and Comyn's Digest. Besides these there are Viner's and Bacon's Abridgments, and Harrison's, Chitty's, Fisher's, and Mews' Digests, of later date; and the English and Empire Digest; also the Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England; and The Laws of England, Halsbury, and Hailsham editions....
Abridgment
Abridgment [fr. abreviamentum, Lat.], a large work contracted into a narrow compass; a summary, epitome, or compendium. As to how far this may be done without breach of copyright, see Butterworth v. Robinson, (1801) 5 Ves 709; but it has been doubted whether any abridgment is lawful under the Copyright Act, 1911....
Brooke's (Sir Robert) abridgement
Brooke's (Sir Robert) abridgement, a work printed in 1568, and an improvement on the plan of Statham and Fitzherbert. The cases are here arranged with more strict regard to the title; but the order in which they are strung together is very little better, being generally guided only by the chronology, Foster....
Conditional limitation
Conditional limitation partakes of the nature both of a condition and a remainder. At the Common Law whenever either the whole fee or a particular estate, as an estate for life or in tail, was first limited, no condition or other quality could be annexed to this prior estate, which would have the double effect of defeating the estate, and passing the lands to a stranger, for as a remainder it was void, being an abridgment or defeasance of the estate first granted, and as a condition it was void, as no one but the donor or his heirs could take advantage of a condition broken; and the entry of the donor or his heirs unavoidably defeated the livery upon which the remainder depended. On these principles it was impossible by the old law to limit by deed, if not by will, an estate to a stranger upon any event which might abridge or determine an estate previously limited. But the expediency of such limitations, assisted by the revolution effected by the Statute of Uses, at length established ...
Rastell
Rastell, John, and William, his son, lawyers and printers of the time of Henry VIII. John Rastell translated from the French the 'Abridgment of the Statutes prior to the time of Henry VII.' He also abridged those of Henry VII., and down tc the 23 & 24 of Henry VIII., which were printed together by the son William in 1533. This was the first abridgment in the English language.The performances which most distinguish William Rastell belong to a later period than the reign of Henry VIII. these are his collection of English Statutes printed in 1559, and his 'Entries,' printed long after his death in 1596, 4 Reeves, 418....
ment
A suffix denoting that which does a thing an act or process the result of an act or process state or condition as aliment that which nourishes ornament increment fragment piece broken segment abridgment act of abridging imprisonment movement adjournment amazement state of being amazed astonishment...
Statham
Statham. The learning of the law was thrown into a more methodical form than it had ever yet received by this author, who was a Baron of the Exchequer in time of Edward IV. this was in his Abridgement of the Laws, being a kind of digest containing most titles of the law, arranged in alphabetical order, and comprising under each head adjudged cases, concisely abridged from the Year-books, 4 Reeves, c. xxv. 117....
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