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For the purpose of the business
preservation of the business and for the protection of its assets and property from expropriation, coercive process or assertion of hostile title; it may also comprehend payment of statutory dues and taxes imposed as a pre-condition to
Evidence
25 Cr App Cas 150. (2) The point in issue is to be proved by the party who asserts the affirmative; according to the maxim affirmanti non neganti incumbit probatio. See BURDEN OF PROOF. (3) It will
Estoppel
(1979) 4 SCC 121: AIR 1979 SC 1725: (1979) 3 SCR 1133. A bar that prevents one from asserting a claim or right that contradicts what one has said or done before or what has been legally
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Distringas
prevented the stock being dealt with until the person putting in the distringas had had an opportunity of asserting his claim. It was incumbent on him, therefore, at once to bring an action against the stock-holder, either
Disclaimer
without notice to quit on a letter disputing the right of the landlords to raise the rent and asserting a right to hold on a quitrent. A devisee in fee may, by deed, without matter of record,
Nihilist
One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known or asserted to exist
privilege
military, diplomatic, or national security secrets, the need for evidence in a criminal trial will outweigh a general assertion of executive privilege. informant's privilege : the privilege of the government to withhold the identity of an informant
Negation
The act of denying assertion of the nonreality or untruthfulness of anything declaration that something is not or has not been or will
fair play and substantial justice
fair play and substantial justice : a requirement or standard of fairness which a court's assertion of personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant must meet in order to avoid a violation of the defendant's
public trust doctrine
public trust doctrine : a doctrine asserting that the state holds land lying beneath navigable waters as trustee of a public trust for the benefit
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