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Molliter manus imposuit

Molliter manus imposuit. An officer may lay hands upon another to turn him out of church (for instance), and prevent his disturbing the congregation; and if sued for this and the like battery, he may set forth the whole case and state that he laid hands upon him gently (molliter manus imposuit) for this purpose, 3 Steph. Com....

Payment of Money into Court

Payment of Money into Court, i.e., the deposit of money with the official of or banker to the Court for the purpose of proceedings commenced in that Court. Payment into Court is not strictly a defence; it is rather an attempt at a compromise. No such plea was known to the Common Law; it is entirely the creature of Statute (Odgers on Pleading). By the (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 70, the defendant in all actions (except for assault and battery false imprisonment, libel, slander, malicious arrest or prosecution or seduction) might pay into Court a sum of money by way of compensation or amends, and by the Libel Act, 1843, money might be paid into Court in actions of libel, but this provision was repealed by the (English) Statute Law Revision Act, 1879.Payment into court is now regulated by (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XXII, by which, where any action is brought to recover a debt or damages, any defendant may, before or at the time of delivering his defence, or by leave of the Court or a ...

Electro positive

Of such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery in electrolysis while the associated body tends to the positive pole the converse or correlative of electro negative...

Son assault demesne

Son assault demesne, a justification in an action of assault and battery, on the ground that the plaintiff made the first assault, and what the defendant did was in his own defence. it was a plea by confession and avoidance, 1 Selw. N.P., 13th Edn. 2. See now PLEADING; STATEMENT OF DEFENCE....

Trespass

Trespass [fr. transgressio, Lat.], any transgression of the law, less than treason, felony, or misprision of either.An unlawful act committed against the person or property of another esp. wrongful entry on another's real property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.The action of trespass lies where a trespass has been committed either to the plaintiff's person or property. A trespass is an injury committed with violence, and this violence may be either actual or implied; and the law will imply violence, though none is actually used, where the injury is of a direct and immediate kind, and committed on the person or tangible and corporeal property of the plaintiff. Of actual violence an assault and battery is an instance; of implied, a peaceable but wrongful enter upon the plaintiff's lands, Steph. Plead., 7th Edn., 11, 37, 154. As to trespass on the case, see CASE and VI ET ARMIS.Trespass, as an unlawful act committed against a person and property of another, Black's Law Dictionary (7th E...

Electro tint

A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery so that in electro typing the parts not covered by the varnish etc receive a deposition of metal and produce the required copy in intaglio A cast of this is then the plate for printing...

Deflagrator

A form of the voltaic battery having large plates used for producing rapid and powerful combustion...

Electropoion

An exciting and depolarizing acid solution used in certain cells or batteries as the Grenet battery Electropoion is best prepared by mixing one gallon of concentrated sulphuric acid diluted with three gallons of water with a solution of six pounds of potassium bichromate in two gallons of boiling water It should be used cold...

Disruptive

Causing or tending to cause disruption caused by disruption breaking through bursting as the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery...

atrocious

atrocious : characterized by extreme cruelty or viciousness [ assault and battery] ...

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