Avoidance - Law Dictionary Search Results
relation back
act (as filing of a document and esp. a pleading) as the time of its effect esp. to avoid a time limit [the relation back of amendments to the date of the original pleading] ;also : the
defense
: a defense to a criminal charge based on the assertion that the criminal act was committed to avoid the commission of an even greater evil called also lesser evils defense NOTE: In jurisdictions that recognize the
evade
evade evad·ed evad·ing 1 : to unlawfully fail to pay (taxes) through fraudulent or deceptive means compare avoid 2 : to avoid answering directly [trying to the question]
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sever
order to treat each separately 3 a : to try (criminal offenses or defendants) separately in order to avoid prejudice b : to split (a criminal trial) into multiple trials in order to avoid prejudice c :
Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923
incur in connection with the sale or removal of household goods, implements, fixtures, farm produce and stock. To avoid disputes this sum is taken to be equivalent to one year's rent unless proved to exceed this sum,
Equitable claims and defences at Common Law
in Equity from such judgment on equitable grounds, by way of defence, and also enabled the plaintiff to avoid such defence by a replication upon equitable grounds. A plea on equitable grounds was good at Law only
Fare
Railways Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 119), s. 16. Travelling without prepayment and with intent to avoid payment is punishable by fine up to 40s., and on second or subsequent offence either by fine up
Incuria
courts have developed this principle in relaxation of the rule of stare decisis. The quotable in law is avoided and ignored if it is rendered, 'in ignoratium of a statute or other binding authority, Young v. Bristol
Notice
have elicited; and (b) where there has been a designed abstinence from inquiry for the very purpose of avoiding notice. See CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE. A purchaser with notice may protect himself by purchasing the title of another bona
Personally interested
nature of an expectation of advantage to be gained, or of a loss or some disadvantage to be avoided by one who was said to be so interested, Jokhan Singh v. Marjad Koeri, AIR 1972 Pat 208:
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