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Natural justice
natural justice is to secure justice or to put it negatively to prevent miscarriage of justice. These rules can operate only in areas not covered by any law validly made. In other words they supplant the rules
Malice in law
a deliberate act in disregard of the right of others. Where malice is attributed to the State, it can never be a case of personal ill-will or spite on the part of the State. If at all,
Magna Carta
debtor, until they be satisfied of the debt which they before paid for him, except that the debtor can show himself to be acquitted against the said sureties.' This order of enforcing Crown debts from debtors and
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Precedent
documents in ordinary use which are made and published from time to time as models which a practitioner can safely follow, after adaptation so far as necessary to his own particular case. See Davidson's Precedents in Conveyancing;
Petroleum
but does not include coal or bituminous shales or other shales or other stratified deposits from which oil can be extracted by destructive distillation. [Petroleum (Production) Act, 1934 (UK)] Includes any mineral oil or relative hydrocarbon and
Vagueness of grounds
Vagueness of grounds, vague can be considered as the antonym of 'definite'. If the ground which is supplied is incapable of being understood
Preventive detention
& 6 Geo. 5, c. 90), a person after three previous convictions after attaining sixteen years of age, can with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions, R. v. Waller, (1910) 1 KB 364, in certain
Publication
defamation that the publication be to a third person, though the law is otherwise in Scotland. Thus, there can be no publication as between husband and wife, Wennhak v. Morgan, (1888) 20 QBD 635; but publication can
Ratification
B. of A.'s act has the same legal consequences as if B. had originallyauthorised the act. But there can be no ratification unless A purported to act as agent, and to act for B.; and in such
Reasonable restriction
prescribed, should be applied to each individual statute impugned, and no abstract standard, or general pattern of reasonableness can be laid down as applicable in all cases. The restriction which arbitrarily or excessively invades the right cannot
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