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Restrictive trade practice

lead to rise in the price. (b) Any trade practice which requires a consumer to buy, hire or avail of any goods or, as the case maybe, services as condition precedent to buying, hiring or availing of

Refugee

is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country, Reg. v. I.A.T., Ex p Shah [HL (E)], (1999) 2 WLR

Discontinuance

Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27), which provides (s. 39) that no discontinuance shall thereafter avail to take away the right of entry. Discontinuance by the plaintiff in an action in the High Court

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Alteration

not apparent, and the bill is in the hands of a holder in due course, such holder may avail himself of the bill as if it had not been altered, and may enforce payment of it according

Appeal

even in respect of the appeals. That is because there is a vested right in the litigant to avail the remedy of an appeal, Shiv Shakti Co-op. Housing Society v. Swaraj Developers, (2003) 6 SCC 659 (668):

Beneficium cedendarum actionum

creditor, compel him to make over to him the actions which belonged to the stipulator, so as to avail himself of them, Sand. Just.

Benigne faciend' sunt interpretationes, propter simplicitatem laicorum, ut res magis valeat quam pereat; et verba intentioni non ' contra debent inservire

are to be made liberally, on account of the simplicity of the laity, that the thing may rather avail than perish; and words ought to serve the intention, not contrariwise.) These maxims relate to the mode of

Capite, tenure in

Capite, tenure in, lands held by tenants immediately from the king. It was the most honourable tenure, and was of two kinds, either ul de honore, where the land was held of the king, as proprietor...

Criminal Law Amendment Acts, 1885 to 1928 (English)

an offence. [R. v. Chapman, (1931) 2 KB 606 (a man of twenty-three yeas and six months can avail himself of this defence).] See AGE. The time within which a prosecution can be commenced under s. 5

Charta de non ente non valet

de non ente non valet [Lat.], A deed relating to a thing not in existence is of no avail. This maxim relates primarily to the subject-matter of any grant, or to the person to whom a grant

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