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Guarantee
undertaking falling short of a specified amount. [Constitution of India, Art. 366(13)] Guarantee, is in collateral engagement to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person, a promise to another as debtor to secure the
Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum
Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum (that you have the body to answer). This, the most celebrated prerogative writ in the English law, is a remedy for a person deprived of
Imparlance
Imparlance [fr. licentia loquendi, Lat.], time to plead; also when a Court gives a party leave to answer or plead at another time, without the assent of the other party. Abolished by r. 31, T.T. 1853.
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Injunction
a crime. It is either (1) inter-locutory, i.e., provisional or temporary, until the coming in of the defendant's answer, or until the hearing of the cause; or (2) perpetual, i.e., forming part of a decree made at
Interrogatories
of one party to a cause, before the trial thereof, to the other party, who is bound to answer them in writing upon oath. In the Courts of Equity either party could from very early times interrogate
Issue
The word 'issue' in a will was either a word of purchase or of limitation, as would best answer the intention of the testator; and for the effect of the word in the case of a deed,
Polligar, Polygar
Polligar, Polygar, the head of a village or district; also a military chieftain in the peninsula, answer-ing to a hill zemindar in the northern circars, Indian.
Traversing Note
Traversing Note. Inequity a plaintiff, after an appearance had been entered, might, in default of answer to interrogatories which had been filed for the examination of the defendant, proceed with his cause by filing
Post-dated cheque
cheque dated on a Sunday is presented on the previous business day, it should be returned with the answer post-dated. A post-dated cheque, however, if presented at or after its ostensible date, should be paid though the
Support
Support, to support a rule or order is to argue in answer to the arguments of the party who has shown cause against a rule or order nisi. The help
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