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Home Dictionary Name: at lawcounselor-at-law
counselor-at-law pl: counselors-at-law : counsel compare attorney-at-law ...
attorney-at-law
attorney-at-law pl: attorneys-at-law : lawyer compare attorney-in-fact ...
barrister-at-law
barrister-at-law pl: barristers-at-law : barrister often used as a formal title ...
At law
At law, means according to law, by, for, or in law, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 122....
county court at law
county court at law often cap C&C&L : a court in some of the more populated counties of Texas that takes on some of the responsibilities of the constitutional county court ...
heir at law
heir at law see heir ...
nuisance at law
nuisance at law see nuisance ...
law
law [Old English lagu, of Scandinavian origin] 1 : a rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority: as a : a command or provision enacted by a legislature see also statute b : something (as a judicial decision) authoritatively accorded binding or controlling effect in the administration of justice [that case is no longer the of this circuit] 2 a : a body of laws [the of a state] ;broadly : laws and justice considered as a general and established entity [the looks with disfavor on restraints on alienation] b : common law compare equity 3 a : the control or authority of the law [maintain and order] b : one or more agents or agencies involved in enforcing laws c : the application of a law or laws as distinct from considerations of fact [an error of ] see also issue of law at issue matter of law at matter question of law at question 4 : the whole body of laws and doctrines relating to one subject [contract ] [the...
Equitable claims and defences at Common Law
Equitable claims and defences at Common Law; The (English) Common Law Procedure Act, 1854 (ss 83-86), enabled any defendant to plead the facts which would entitle him, if judgment were obtained against him, to relief in Equity from such judgment on equitable grounds, by way of defence, and also enabled the plaintiff to avoid such defence by a replication upon equitable grounds. A plea on equitable grounds was good at Law only where an absolute and unconditional injunction wold be granted in Equity.The (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 36, and follow-ing sections, reproducing s. 24 of the (English) Judicature Act, 1873, has combined the jurisdiction of the Courts of Common Law and Equity so that legal and equitable remedies may be granted in the same Court but without affecting the nature of the rights. The object is to avoid multiplicity of actions and it does not confer a new jurisdiction (The James Westall, 1905, P., p. 51), and if there is any conflict or variance between the rules...
Uses
Uses (History). A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The Common Law treated the actual possessor for all purposes as the owner of the property. It was not difficult to find him out, since the possession of his estate was conferred upon him by a formal and notorious ceremony, technically called livery of seisin, which was performed openly and in the presence of the people of the locality.It soon became evident that the simple rules of the Common Law were stumbling-blocks to the complicated wants of an enterprising people.Hence ingenuity was sharpened to hit upon a device which should set at nought the rigidity of existing law and formalities.A system was found by the monastic jurists upon a model furnished by the Civil Law, which, by a nice adaptation, evaded, without overturning, the Common Law. Two methods of transferring realty began to co-exist in this country-the ancient Common Law system, and the later invention, which is denomi...
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