Skip to content

Abridgment - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Civil Law

of the most renowned civilians, which, with above two thousand other treatises, containing three millions of lines, were abridged into a hundred and fifty thousand; the work was completed in the incredibly short space of three years,

Contravention

law is made, for the contravention is of the prohibition to make any law which takes away or abridges the fundamental rights. There is no question of the contravention of Art. 13(2) being a continuing matter, Mahendra

Deed

nothing can be limited in the habendum which has not been given in the premises, yet it may abridge, qualify, or enlarge the premises, but where they are repugnant, the premises will operate in preference to the

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Directive principles of State Policy

Directive Principles shall not be void on the ground that it is inconsistent with or takes away or abridges only of the rights conferred by Article 14 or Article 19 of the Constitution, Constitution of India, Art.

Domesday, or domesday-book

made by command of the same king. And there is a fourth book called Domesday, which is only abridgement of the others. The question whether lands are ancient demesne or not is to be decided by the

Double complaint, or Double quarrel

the period of two months which the bishop had to inquire of the sufficiency of a clerk was abridged to twenty-eight days, before the expiration of which a duplex querela could not be brought.

Entail

As to Scotland, see (English) Entail (Scotland) Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 43). A few abridged or limited to the owners issue or class of issue, rather than descending to all heirs, Black's Law

Remedial statutes

Remedial statutes, those which are made to supply such defects, and abridge such superfluities in the Common Law, as arise either from the general imperfection of all human laws, from

Law

the appropriate legislature has competency to make the law; and (2) that it does not take away or abridge any of the fundamental rights enumerated in Part III of the Constitution, Kavalappara Kochuni v. State of Madras

Marginal note

in accordance with the text; and in Chitty's Statutes of Practical Utility they have been much added to, abridged, or altered. In some private Acts of Parliament the marginal notes may form part of the Act, Re

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial