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Costs

Costs, expenses incurred in litigation or professional transactions, consisting of money paid for stamps, etc., to the officers of the...

National insurance. The (English) National Insur-ance Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 55), introduced by Mr. Lloyd George,...

Vagrants, sturdy beggars; vagabonds. The Act which is now in force, embodying, mitigating, and extending numerous former provisions, is the...

Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or...

Registration of title of land. The (English) Land Registration Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 21), repeals and re-enacts the...

Oath [fr. ath, Sax.], an appeal to God to witness the truth of a statement. It is called a corporal...

Hindu, The historical and etymological genesis of the word 'Hindu' has given rise to a controversy amongst ideologists; but the...

Mortgage [fr. mort, Fr., dead, and gage, pledge], a deed pledge; a thing put into the hands of a creditor....

Impossibility. If a man contract to do a thing which is absolutely impossible by its nature, such contract will not...

Entertainment, In Stroud's Judicial Dictionary (4th Edn., Vol. 2, p. 916) the word 'entertainment' has been defined thus: Entertainment ........