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Time

Common Law, time was always of the essence of the contract, but the equitable doctrine now recognized in all courts since the Judicature Act, 1873, s. 25 (7) (now replaced by Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 41),

Execution

abolished, except as specified in s. 4. See IMPRISONMENT. By (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XLII., r. 17(b), the Court or a judge may, at or after the time of giving judgment or making an order, stay execution

Reeve

Chief Magistrate of a hundred. The reeve executed process, kept the peace and enforced the law by holding court within the hundred. - 'All the freeholders, unless relieved by special exemption 'owed suit' at the hundred-moot and

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Court

SCR 850. [Criminal Procedure Code (5 of 1898), s. 195(2)] Tribunals functioning under Industrial Disputes Act are not courts in the strict sense of the term they have to discharge quasi-judicial functions and as such are subject

Peculiars, Court of

Peculiars, Court of, a branch of, and annexed to, the Court of Arches. It has a jurisdiction over all those

Piedpoudre, Court of

cause of action arose there. A writ of error lay in the nature of an appeal to the Courts at Westminster, 3 Reeves, c. 20, p. 293.

Code

with the provisions of Part X of the Code' (Ss. 121 to 131). S. 122 enabled the High Court to make rules, from time to time 'regulating their own procedure or the procedure of the Civil Code

jurisdiction

Ancillary jurisdiction allows a single court to decide an entire case instead of dividing the claims among several courts and proceedings, and allows a federal court to decide a claim that would otherwise be properly brought to

High bailiffs

High bailiffs, officers appointed under s. 33 of the County Courts Act, 1888, by the judge of each county Court, to attend every sitting of the Court, and by

Supreme Court of Judicature

those constituting the High Court and Court of Appeal:--The High Court was divided into five divisions, representing the courts whose jurisdiction was transferred thereto (see IVISIONS); the Court of Appeal received juris-diction to hear, with a few

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