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Vagueness of grounds

of being understood or defined with sufficient it can be called vague. It is not possible to State affirmatively more on the question of what is vague. It must very according to the circumstances of each case.

Tribunal

of 'tribunal' in the wider sense and quotes Fry, L.J. in Dawkins v. Rokeby (LR 8 QB 255, affirmed LR 7 HL 744. I accept that, with this qualification that I do not like the word 'tribunal'.

Trial

it at the same time as his other evidence, or reserve it until after the defendant has given affirmative evidence on the issue. At the end of the plaintiff's evidence, the defendant's counsel declares whether he will

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Treason

c. 17, s. 3. If any person shall maliciously, advisedly, and directly, by writing or printing, maintain and affirm that any other person hath any right or title to the crown of this realm, otherwise than according

Statutum affirmativum non derogat communi legi

Statutum affirmativum non derogat communi legi. Jenk. Cent. 24.-(An affirmative statute does not derogate from the Common Law.) See ACT

Residue

and replaced by the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 49; see Re Glukman, (1908) 1 Ch 552; affirmed, nom. A.G. v. Jeffereys, 1908 AC 411. The distribution of the surplusage of an intestate's estate was provided

Remitter

lands, it shall bind him to the rents and covenants, because a man never can be allowed to affirm that his own deed is ineffectual, since that is the greatest security on which men rely in all

Record, Trial by

nul tiel record; and the Court awards a trial by inspection of the record. Upon this, the party affirming its existence is bound to produce it in Court on a given day; failing to do so, judgment

Real Property Act, 1845

1905, C. will become tenant to A. till the end of 1905, notwithstanding B.'s surrender)--the statute being in affirmance of the common law as laid down in Co. Litt. 338 b, and Doe v. Puke, (1816) 5

Quasi judicial, quasi

express statutory duty to act judicially in arriving at the decision in question. If the reply is in affirmative, the authority would be deemed to be quasi-judicial, and if the reply is in the negative, it would

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