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Exemplary damages
on the ground (amongst others) of excessive damages was discharged by the High Court. The Court of Appeal affirmed this judgment, but laid it down that the Court had power to refuse a new trial on the
Foreign Attachment
by the Recorder of London, in the reign o Edward IV., to be, that if a plaint be affirmed in London before, etc., against any person, and it be returned nihil, if the plaintiff will surmise that
De praerogative regis
De praerogative regis, the statute 17 Edw. 2, st. 1, which enacts, in affirmance of the Common Law, that the King shall have ward of the lands of natural fools, taking the
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consideration, since the Common Law does not furnish any direct recognition of them. But it may be safely affirmed that they are so consonant with general justice, and with the nature of the contract, that, in the
In forma pauperis
Every poor person, having cause of action, was entitled by 11 Hen. 7, c. 12, which is in affirmance of the Common Law, to have writs according to the nature of the case, without paying the fees
Debt
action of debt lay where a person claimed the recovery of a liquidated or certain sum of money affirmed to be due to him; and it was generally founded on some contract alleged to have taken place
Confessing error
Confessing error, the affirmative plea to an assignment of error.
Crossed cheques
Amendment Act,1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 44); Slingsby v. Westminster Bank Ltd., (1931) 1 KB 122, affirmed sub nom. Lloyds Bank Ltd. v. Savory & Co., 1933 AC 201; see also 'NOT NEGOTIABLE.' If the
Covenant
Covenants are inherent that tend to the support of the lan or thing granted,or ae collateral to it; affirmative, or negative; executed, or that which is alreadyd one; executory, or that which is to be done. Shep.
Converse
far the most fertile source of purely syllogistic fallacies is the tendency of the mind to convert universal affirmatives without limitation.'-Bain's Logic, Deduction, p. 114.
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