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Poison

the same Act as to administering poisonous drugs to animals. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Poison.' No comprehensive definition can be given to the word poison. Under this term would fall anything calculated to destroy life. Substances harmless

Personal property

a person may convey real or personal property to himself alone. In the case of real property there can be no such thing as an absolute ownership in the subject-matter, i.e., land; the utmost that any one,

National insurance

B. Voluntary Contributors. Voluntary contributors are persons who may, if they wish, come under the Acts. Married women cannot become voluntary contributors. Such persons are: (a) Persons who have been employed within the meaning of the Acts

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Nullity and irregularity

validity'. The safest rule of distinction between an 'irregularity' and a 'nullity' is to see whether 'a party can waive the objection: if he can waive, it amounts to irregularity and if he cannot, it is a

Necessary party

Necessary party, a necessary party is one without whom no order can be made effectively; a proper party is one in whose absence of effective order can be made but

Necessary party, Proper party

Necessary party, Proper party, a necessary party is one without whom no order can be made effectively. A proper party is one in whose absence an effective order can be made but

Need

to be a necessity for a decision by the Supreme Court on the question, and such a necessity can be said to exist when, for instance, two views are possible regarding the question and High Court takes

Negligence per se

valid municipal ordinance, or because it is so palpably opposed to the dictates of common prudence that it can be said without hesitation or doubt that no careful person would have been guilty of it. As a

Nemo dat qui non habet

Nemo dat qui non habet. Jenk. Cent. 250, (He who hath not cannot give.) --(No one can give that which he has not. In other words, No one can give a

Nihil aliud potest rex quam quod de jure potest

Nihil aliud potest rex quam quod de jure potest [Lat.], the king can do nothing other than what he can do by law.

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