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Gretna green marriage

in a jurisdiction other than where the parties reside to avoid some legal impediment that exists where they live; a runaway

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

corpus, but, reciting the shifts of gaolers and others to avoid their yielding obedience to such writ 'contrary to their duty

Dissolution

same s.s the Court may defer and, under s. 294, avoid a dissolution within two years from its date, and see

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Arrestando ipsum qui pecuniam recepit

in the wars, and then hid himself in order to avoid going, Ibid. 24.

Counterplea

the tenant showed his cause, whreuponthe vouchee pleaded anything to avoid the warranty, that was termed a counterplea of thewarranty, Temes

Contributory

are liable in a secondary degree. A shareholder may sometimes avoid liability by transfer to a pauper. See Re Discoveries Finance

Constructive notice

(c) if he deliberately refrains from inquiry in order to avoid notice. See Halsbury, L.E., vol. 13, and the person affected

Condition

a rule and excepting bequests of personalty (Williams on Executors), avoid the obligation which has been entered into, or the estate

Concurrent jurisdictions

was obtainable at law. It was exercised in order to avoid circuity of action or multiplicity of suits. See UNSOUND MIND.

Compromise, Settlement

is 'an agreement between two or more persons, who, to avoid a law suit, amicably settle their differences, on such terms

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