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Liable
Liable, means 'Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; chargeable; answerable; compellable to make satisfaction, compensation or restitution..... Obligated: accountable for or chargeable with. Condition of being bound to
Respondent
Respondent, a party answering in a suit, whether for himself or another; the defendant in an appeal; the defendant in a suit
Subject to
Bull, (1877) 7 Ch D 29. Means liable, subordinate, subservient, inferior, obedient to: governed or affected by: provided: answerable for, Black's Law Dictionary, 5th Edn., p. 1278. Means payment of debts etc., does not make the legatee
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Latitat
Latitat (he lies hid), a writ whereby all persons were originally summoned to answer in personal actions in the King's Bench; so called because it is supposed by the writ that the
Monition
caution; Admonition. 2. Civil & Maritime law. A summons to appear in court as a defendant or to answer contempt charges. 3. A formal Notice from a bishop demanding that an offence within the clergy be corrected,
Letter-missive
to this, he was then served with a copy of the bill and a citation to appear and answer; if he continued still in contempt, a sequestration nisi, which was made absolute in the usual way, issued
Magna Carta
the debt, having nothing wherewith to pay, or will not pay where he is able, the pledges shall answer for the debt. And if they will, they shall have the lands and rents of the debtor, until
Mare clausum
Mare clausum, the title of a celebrated work by Selden, written in answer to the treatise called Mare Liberu
Masters of the Supreme Court
attached to two judges. The duties of the Masters are to hear summonses for directions, take accounts and answer inquiries pursuant to directions in judgments and orders, etc.; see Ord. LV., rr. 15 et seq. There is
Oyer
or delivers. Sometimes, however, he is obliged to do both, namely, where he has occasion to found his answer upon any matter contained in the deed of which profert is made, and not set forth by his
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