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Common object

'common intention' as it does not require a prior concert and a common meeting of minds before the attack. It is enough if each has the same object in view and their number is five or more

Common object, common intention

'common intention' as it does not require a prior concert and a common meeting of minds before the attack. It is enough if each has the same object in view and their number is five or more

Defender, advocate, pleader

a party in a civil suit. A defender attempts to keep off a threatened injury by rebutting the attack of another; an advocate states that which is to the advantage of the person or thing advocated; a

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Disseisin

the freehold, not, as in abatement or intrusion, a wrongful entry, where the possession was vacant; but an attack on him who is in actual possession, and turning him out; it is an ouster from a freehold

Doctrine of basic structure

nation, is concerned. But, in every case where reliance is placed upon it, in the course of an attack upon legislation, whether ordinary or constituent (in the sense that it is an amendment of the Constitution), what

Impeachment of verdict

Impeachment of verdict, means a party's attack on a verdict, alleging impropriety by a member of the jury, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 756.

Issued and served

to serve, after referring to Niwas v. I.T.O., (1956) 30 ITR 381 (All) cited in the judgment under attack and a Bombay decision, observed at page 108: The intention would be effectuated if the wider meaning is

Perpetuating testimony

in maintenance of an unpossessed legal right, or where an adversary with an apparent right is postponing his attack against the lawful possessor, until the death of witnesses who can give evidence against his claim. A common

Queela inofficiosi testamenti

been complied with, near relatives with obvious claims (the classes of those entitled having been gradually widened) might attack the Will as contrary to natural duty (inofficiosum) and get it set aside, A Manual of Roman Private

Impugnation

Act of impugning opposition attack

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