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case number
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Key-number system
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caseload
caseload : the number of cases handled (as by a court or a lawyer) often in a particular period
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Jury
Jury [fr. jurata, Lat.; jure, Fr.], a number of persons sworn to deliver a verdict upon evidence delivered to them touching the issue. Trial by jury … Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act, 1919, women were disqualified at common law from acting as jurors except in the case of a Jury of Matrons (q.v.). Now the qualifications are the same for each sex. Certain persons, as
Common gaming house
gaming-- (a) on the market price of cotton, opium or other commodity or on the digits of the number used is stating such price, or (b) on the amount of variation in the market price of any … Common gaming house, 'common gaming house' means-- (i) in the case of gaming-- (a) on the market price of cotton, opium or other commodity or on the digits of
Insurance
against. Insurances are effected sometimes by companies or societies, and sometimes by individuals, the risk being in either case diffused amongst a number of persons. Companies formed for carrying on this business have generally a large subscribed
Forgery
time or place of making, where either is material, or, in the case of a document identified by number or mark, the number or any distinguishing mark identifying the document, is falsely stated therein' (s. 1). It … 'the making of a false document in order that it may be used as genuine,' and in the case of the seals and dies mentioned in the Act, 'the counterfeiting of a seal or die,' and forgery
case
issues or circumstances and often some of the same parties NOTE: A test case is selected from a number of cases in order to avoid a flood of litigation. All of the parties to the cases must … case [Latin casus accident, event, set of circumstances, literally, act of falling] 1 a : a civil or criminal
Guardians of the poor
of any number of persons not exceeding the number to be elected in 'unions' or parishes, as the case may be, within 40 days after the 25th March in every year, to serve for three years, one-third
docket number
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