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Shard borne
Borne on shards or scaly wing cases
Sheath winged
Having elytra or wing cases as a beetle
A mensa et thoro
A mensa et thoro. (From table and bed.) A term used to describe a partial divorce, in cases in which the marriage was just and lawful, but for some supervenient cause, such as the commission of
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Abduction
will of her parent or other person having the lawful care of her. In either of these two cases a person convicted is incapable of taking any estate or interest in the woman's property, (English) Offences against
Abstract
abstractus; fr. trahere, Lat., to draw], an abridgment or epitome, as the abstract of pleas required in some cases before the Judicature Act; also a purloining. Abstract, a thing looked at purely by itself and without comparison
Abstract of title
the Law of Properties Act, 1925 (English), abstracts of title deduced after 1925 have become simplified in some cases, but the old rules relating to titles and the state of the title up to 1st January, 1926,
Accident
of disadvantage and not due to negligence or misconduct on the part of the person seeking relief. The cases in which equity may give relief under certain conditions are (1) lost or destroyed documents. (2) Imperfect execution
Admeasurement, writ of
Admeasurement, writ of. It lay against persons who usurped more than their share, in the two following cases; admeasurement of dower, where the widow held from the heir more land, etc., as dower than rightly belonged
Accident occasioned by negligence
Accident occasioned by negligence. As to the recovery of damages for injuries in such cases, see NEGLIGENCE. As to the rights of wife, husband, parent or child of person killed in such an
Account or Accompt
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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