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comparative fault

comparative fault : a doctrine in torts in which the fault attributable to each party is compared and any award to the plaintiff is reduced in proportion to the plaintiff's share

Passive resisters

authority in connection with an object of which they disapprove, decline to pay that part of a rate attributable to such expenditure, and by such 'passive resistance' force the local authority to recover the sum withheld by distress

Mixed hereditament

appears to the rating authority or is determined that the proportion of the rateable value of the hereditament attributable to the part of the hereditament used for the purposes of a private dwelling or private dwellings is greater

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Illegally acquired properties

or partly out of or by means of any income, earnings or assets derived or obtained from or attributable to any activity prohibited, by or under any law for the time being in force relating to any matter

Equity of redemption

simply as a pledge, as contrary to substantial justice. The right or equity of redemption is an essential attribute of a mortgage; it is inherent in the thing itself, and any provision inserted in the mortgage to

Legal entity

entity, only a thing recognised by the law as real in itself and distinct from its qualities and attributes and, while every legal person is necessarily a legal entity, the converse is not true, Ittiavira Thomas v.

Language

of thoughts and feelings by means of vocal sounds and combinations of such sounds to which meaning is attributed, all the vocal sounds, words and the ways of combining them common to a particular nation, tribe or

Judicial power

so as to enforce that decision, then but only by then, according to the definition quoted, all the attributes of judicial power are plainly present, Words and Phrases, Vol. 3, p. 113. Means the power which every

Judgment

not essential that it should wholly put an end to the litigation, and it need not possess the attributes of a final order. Any adjudication, which puts an end to a suit or proceeding so far as

Imperium

Imperium, right to command, an attribute of execu-tive power.

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