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Commendam
The acceptance by a beneficed clerk of a second living vacated the one be already held, and to avoid this a dispensation, called a commendam retinere, had to be obtained either from the Pope, or in later
Circuity of action
to recover, the defendant might plead the facts which constitute such right as a defence, in order to avoid circuity of action, Bullen & Leake, Prec. of Plead., 3rd ed., p. 558. Now all the counterclaims may
Hypo-respect
of respect lesser than that which is warranted. 'the law in the area of contempt of court must avoid the xtremes of hyper-reactivity to marginal indifference to judicial authority out of pragmatic difficulties and of hypo-respect for
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Parol evidence
its stipulations; or, lastly, where fraud or illegality in the formation of the deed is relied on to avoid it. If a clause in a deed be so ambiguously or defectively expressed that a Court of justice
Improvement of towns
special Acts of Parliament theretofore passed 'for paving, draining, cleansing, lighting, and improving towns and populous districts,' to avoid the necessity for repeating such provisions in each special Act, and to ensure greater uniformity in the provisions
Privy
without partiality through affection, love, need, doubt or dread. (3) To keep the sovereign's counsel secret. (4) To avoid corruption. (5) To help and strengthen the execution of what shall be resolved. (6) To withstand all persons
Void and voidable
type of void acts, transactions, decrees are those which are wholly without jurisdiction, ab initio void and for avoiding the same, no declaration is necessary, law does not take any notice of the same and it can
Verbal note
diplomacy, not signed, sent when an affair has continued a long time without any reply, in order to avoid the appearance of an urgency which, perhaps, is not required; and, on the other hand, to guard against
Uses
it transvests the legal ownership and has the same effect as a feoffment or grant. It was to avoid the divesting of the legal estate in the feoffee to uses that the practice grew up of a
Under-lease
Smith. Mortgages of leaseholds, where the covenants are onerous, are almost invariably made by sub-demise, so as to avoid bringing the mortgagee into direct relation with the lessor and so rendering him liable to be sued on
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