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Retainer

called a general retainer. Subject to rr. 20 and 21 of the Retainer Rules, a special retainer is binding if duly tendered, whether accepted or not, but there is no rule of the profession which makes a

Solicitor

in partnership may have two each [Ex parte Bayley, (1829) 9 B&C 691], and there may be a binding to a firm, which operates as a binding to each member of it [Re Holland, (1872) LR 7

Per incuriam

are those decisions given in ignorance or forgetfulness of some inconsistent (sic) statutory provision or of some authority binding on the court concerned, so that in such case some part of the decision or some step in

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Covenant

its performance, that it be performed in a reasonable time. Covenants are personal obligations; formerly the did not bind theheirs of the covenanter unless the heirs were named and inthat case only to the extent of the

International Law

have no intrinsic force, proprio vigore, except within the territorial limits and jurisdiction of that country. They can bind only its own subjects and others who are within its jurisdictional limits; and the latter only while they

Partnership

a limited partners must not do; thus, he cannot take part in the management of the business or bind the firm (s. 6), and if he does take part in the management, he becomes for the time

English mortgage

English mortgage, Where the mortgagor binds him-self to repay the mortgage-money on a certain date, and transfers the mortgaged property absolutely to the mortgagee,

Court-baron

as to profits. The tenants of a manor might make bye-laws touching their commons and the like, to bind such tenants as assented thereto, unless they were made by prescription or under an immemorial custom. These laws

Acknowledgement of a wife's assurance

married before 1883 who became a trustee or personal representative after 1882. As to the Court's power to bind by order or judgment for her benefit and with her consent, the interest of a married woman in

Bargain

An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration and the other party binds himself to

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