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Judicial proceeding

Judicial proceeding, 'Judicial proceeding' includes any proceeding in the course of which evidence is or may be legally taken on...

Notice, the making something known to a person of which he was or might be ignorant. Notice is either (1)...

High Steward, Court of the Lord, a tribunal instituted for the trial of peers or peeresses indicted for treason or...

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Solicitor, an officer of the Supreme Court of Judicature, who, and who only, is entitled to 'sue out any writ...

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

Intoxicating liquor, the word 'intoxicating liquor' is not confined to potable liquor alone but would include all liquor which contain...

Institutions. It was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of...

Indictment [fr. indico, Lat., to show], a written accusation against one or more persons of a crime formerly preferred to...

Forfeiture, a penalty for an offence or unlawful act, or for some wilful omission of a tenant of property whereby...

Dowry [dos mulieris, Lat.], otherwise called maritagium, or marriage goods, that which the wife brings the husband in marriage. This...

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