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bind over
under a bond to do something (as appear in court) under court authority 2 : to transfer (a case or defendant) to another forum after a finding of probable cause at a preliminary hearing NOTE: In states
cause
of the plaintiff's injury] NOTE: The cause of an injury must be proven in both tort and criminal cases. actual cause : cause in fact in this entry but-for cause : cause in fact in this entry
file
notice of appeal] ;also : record [filed a mortgage in the Registry of Deeds] NOTE: In nearly all cases, a document is deemed to be filed when it is actually received by the office to which it
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judgment
judgment also judge·ment [jəj-mənt] n 1 a : a formal decision or determination on a matter or case by a court ;esp : final judgment in this entry compare dictum, disposition, finding, holding, opinion, ruling, verdict
trespass
form of action for redress of injuries directly caused by such a wrongful act compare trespass on the case in this entry b : trespass quare clausum fregit in this entry con·tinu·ing trespass : a trespass that
Appeal
to the Court of Criminal Appeal under the (English) Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, or under the (English) Crown Cases Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 78). Appeals to the House of Lords in forma pauperis are
Average
and in other parts roughings. (5) means the average of the wages payable to a workman--(i) in the case of monthly paid workman, in the three complete calendar months, (ii) in the case of weekly paid workman,
Voluntary retirement and resignation
acts, they operate differently. One of the basic distinctions between the two is that is that in the case of resignation, it can be tendered at any time but in the case of voluntary retirement, it can
Property
Vol. I, p. 143 by Bentham. Property, is the sum of a bundle of rights and in the case of tangible property would include the right of possession, the right to enjoy, the right to destroy, the
Crossed cheques
a cheque to write across it, between two parallel lines, the name of the payee's banker, in which case the banker on whom the cheque is drawn should only pay to that banker; in other cases, as
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