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Support

action appears to be the damage as and when it occurs, and the Statute of Limitations is no bar however long since the cause of damage may have occurred, but depreciation in selling value caused by apprehension … v. Coventry Corporation, 1934 Ch 488. As to the right of support for buildings, see, further, the leading case of Dalton v. Angus, (1881) 6 App Cas 740, in which it was held by the House of

Collateral

the issue of two sons; collateral issue, where a criminal convict pleads any matter allowed by law, in bar of execution, as pregnancy, pardon, an act of grace, or diversity of person, viz., that he or she … as collateral may, nevertheless, in view of its covenants and other provisions and the surrounding circumstances of the case, be held to be complete, perfect and independent security, although, where the words used by the parties, together

Account or Accompt

trial before a referee agreed upon, or an official referee. The Statute of Limitations cannot be pleaded in bar to an open account, unless all accounts have ceased above six years. see the (English) Mercantile Law Amendment … with a claim that such account be taken (R. S. C., Ord. III., r. 8), and in such cases the order made must include the directions which were usual in the Court of Chancery. (Ib., Ord. XV.,

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Remainder

upon your decease, and failure of your issue, to A. and his heirs.' In any of these three cases A. would take an estate in fee-simple, giving him a right to the possession of the land upon … of law, but is always crated by act of parties. it may be granted over, charged, devised, or barred by a prior tenant in tail. Mr. Burton (Comp. Pl. 28) thus indicates the difference between a reversion

Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in

power under the Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm 4, c. 74), s. 18, to bar the remainders or reversion over, and if he convey his interest to another, such other will be only … an estate for the life of another), now she is tenant-in-tail after possibility, etc., in possession, Lewis Bowles's case, (1616) 11 Rep. 81 a. This estate must be created by death; it cannot arise out of any

Coke, Sir Edward

Lord Coke, born in 1551, called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1578, counsel in Shelley's case (see that title), Speaker of the House of Commons, Solicitor-General and Attorney-General under Queen Elizabeth, knighted by James

Estoppel

Tax (Central) v. B.N. Bhttacharjee, (1979) 4 SCC 121: AIR 1979 SC 1725: (1979) 3 SCR 1133. A bar that prevents one from asserting a claim or right that contradicts what one has said or done before … identity of a stockholder, Bank of England v. Cutler, (1907)1 KB 889. See also generally Duchess of Kingston's case, (1766) 2 Sm. L.C., and Everest on Estoppel, 3rd ed., See FEED. 'Estoppel' is a rule of equity.

Receipt

brief, though the fee is purely honorary, is a receipt and must be stamped, General Council of the Bar v. I.R.C., (1907) 1 KB 462. Receipt includes any note, memorandum or writing-- (a) whereby any money, or … If any person-- (1) Gives a receipt liable to duty and not duly stamped; or (2) In any case where a receipt would be liable to duty refuses to give a receipt duly stamped; or (3) Upon

County Courts

appointed by the Lord Chancellor, and may not exceed sixty in number [s. 4 (1) (b)], must be barristers of at least seven years' standing (s. 5), who must not practise at the Bar, or act as … 46). Jury.--The judge is the sole judge of all questions of fact and law (s. 87). In certain cases trial with a jury may be prescribed on application to the Court (s. 91). Appeals now lie to

Solicitor

solicitor also. Solicitors practise as advocates before magistrates at petty sessions and quarter sessions where there is no bar, in County Courts, at Arbitrations, at Judges' Chambers, Coroners' Inquests, Under Sheriffs' and Secondaries' Courts, and in the … Articles is increased to twenty shillings; (s. 5) the Law Society has power to discharge articles in certain cases. Ss. 6 and 7 make amendments as regards examinations. Ss. 9 et seq. deal with registrars' grant of

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