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Conditional fee

Property Act, 1925, s. 8) is marked, as to its duration or time of continuance, by an event beyond which it is not to endure. The event is the qualification which gives a name to this estate,

Contribution

debts. In like manner, contribution lies between partners for any excess, which has been paid by one partner beyond his share, if, upon the winding-up of the partnership affairs, such a balance appears in his favour; or

Demurrage

charges which the Port Trust can levy at a particular rate if the goods remain on the docks beyond a specified time. The Port Trust with a view to recover those dues would ordinarily have a lien

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Counter-claim

amended by (English) R.S.C. No. 1, 1929). See SET-OFF. As to counterclaim in an inferior court involving matters beyond the jurisdiction of the Court, see (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 203, replacing (English) Jud.Act, 1873, s. 90.

Curtilage

of State (CA), (2003) 3 WLR 511. Of a mansion house, an area which no conveyancer would extend beyond that occupied by the house, the stables and other outbuildings. The gardens and the rough grass up to

De lunatico inquirendo, writ

person or to prevent a marriage or exodus from the jurisdiction or in regard to procedure in places beyond the jurisdiction of the Court. For the practice, consult Mills and Poyser's Lunacy Practice. See UNSOUND MIND.

Del credere agent

Del credere agent, is the agent of the seller only up to a point. Beyond that he is either a principal or an agent of the buyer see Seksari Cotton Mills v. State

Borrowing powers

of its business, General Auction Estate Co. v. Smith, (1891) 3 Ch 432. If the money borrowed is beyond the company's powers the excess is void, Wenlock v. River Dee Co., (1885) 10 AC 354. And see

Deposition

search has been made for the witness and he cannot be found; where he resides in a place beyond the jurisdiction of the Court; or where he has become lunatic. See now, however, R. S.C. 1883, Ord.

Dissolution

by Law for a period not exceeding one year at a time and not exceeding in any case beyond a period of six months after the Proclamation has ceased to operate, The Council of States (the Upper

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