Avoidance - Law Dictionary Search Results
Fictio legis neminem ladit
[Lat.], a legal fiction must injure no one. Fictions are only to be made for necessity, and to avoid mischief.
Firearms
& 24 Geo. 5, c. 50), makes the use or attempted use of firearms or imitation firearms to avoid arrest punishable with a maximum of fourteen years penal servitude, and also for being in possession of such
Fixtures
reasonable time after, the termination of the tenancy, subject, however, to the tenant paying any rent due, etc., avoiding or making good damage, giving the landlord notice before removal, and allowing the landlord an option of purchase.
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Forfeiture
under pain of forfeiture to the lord. The Crown may, however (see MORTMAIN), grant a licence which will avoid this forfeiture. By the (English) Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 42), s.
Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum
remedy for unjust imprisonment by writ of habeas corpus, but, reciting the shifts of gaolers and others to avoid their yielding obedience to such writ 'contrary to their duty and the known laws of the land''(as laid
Genuine use
is a mere sham, is formalis-tic or notional, where it is empty of substance and directed solely at avoiding revocation and does not serve to carve out an opening in the market for the goods and services
Giving away vessel
Giving away vessel, when a vessel finds herself so close to another vessel that a collision cannot be avoided by the action of the giving-way vessel alone, she must also take such action as will best aid
Gretna green marriage
PER VERBA DE PR'SENTI. A marriage entered into in a jurisdiction other than where the parties reside to avoid some legal impediment that exists where they live; a runaway marriage, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 709.
Has been registered and possesses a registration certificate
in accord with the general tenor of the section as a whole, and in a manner which would avoid oppressive, unreasonable and anomalous results. Assessing Authority v.. Patiala Biscuits Manufacturers (P) Ltd., now Dalmia Biscuits (P) Ltd.,
Hire-purchase system
the hirer that one of husband and wife, in whose name the premises have not been taken. To avoid this, landlords should let the premises jointly--or prove that they were in the order and disposition (see that
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