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Consideration
was held in Eastwood v. Kenyon, (1840) 11 A&E 438, after many conflicting decisions on the subject. Other instances of insufficient consideration or absence of consideration maybe found in:' Cooke v. Oxley, (1790) 3 TR 653, and
Replevin
defendant shall have wrongfully taken the property is wrongfully detained, though it was lawfully obtained in the first instance (replevin in the detinet), (d) that the property shall be wrongfully detained by the defendant at the time
Name
to change 'wanton names' at confirmation. See Blunt's Church Law, 2nd ed. at p. 60, where two post-Reformation instances are given of a bishop changing Christian name at confirmation, and it is said to be 'believed that
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Year to year, tenancy from
are (1) that it exists by construction of law alone instead of an estate at will in every instance where a possession is taken with the consent of the legal owner and where an annual rent has
Remand
the sake of allowing further evidence to be collected and adduced at a further hearing. The act or instance of sending something (such as case, claim, or person) back for further action, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p.
Costs
compensate any person properly attending to give evidence for the prosecution or defence, or called to give evidence at the instance of the court, for the expense, trouble, or loss of time properly incurred in or incidental to the attendance
Appearance
437] The word appearance is capable of having different connotations, when it is employed in different contexts. For instance where the summons or the notice issued to a party, at the initial stage, in civil proceedings, requires
Nuisance
give ground for a civil action, called an information, by the Attorney-General, either of his own motion or at the instance of some person aggrieved, called 'the relator,' who must obtain the sanction of the Attorney-General before writ. (3) It
Springing use
a future period which does not coincide with the termination of a legal estate at common law, for instance. In conveyances before 1926, upon a grant by X. To B. to the use of A. (an infant)
False Verdict
setting aside verdicts and granting new trials, however, so superseded the use of attains that there is no instance of one to be found in our books of reports later than in the time of Elizabeth, and it
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