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Cause or matter

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Criminal cause or matter

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Joinder of causes of action

Joinder of causes of action, coupling two or more matters in the same suit or proceeding. Under the (English) C.L.P. Act, … Joinder of causes of action, coupling two or more matters in the same suit or proceeding. Under the (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 41, causes of action, of

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Morbific

Causing disease generating a sickly state as a morbific matter

jurisdiction

jurisdiction giving a court the power to adjudicate claims (as counterclaims and cross-claims) because they arise from a cause of action over which the court has original jurisdiction ;specif : supplemental jurisdiction acquired by a federal court … federal courts over civil disputes involving parties having diverse citizenship (as in being from different states) where the matter in controversy exceeds a statutory amount (as $50,000) see also Article III of the Constitution in the back

Cross-examination

collateral matter only, as the handwriting of a document tendered in evidence, he is a witness in the cause, and may be cross-examined as to any of the issues in the cause. As to theform of the

res judicata

: a thing, matter, or determination that is adjudged or final: as a : a claim, issue, or cause of action that is settled by a judgment conclusive as to the rights, questions, and facts involved in

Cause, matter

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Parties

to defend in such action, on behalf of or for the benefit of all parties so interested. 'No cause or matter shall be defeated by reason of the misjoinder or non-joinder of parties, and the court may in every … shall be defeated by reason of the misjoinder or non-joinder of parties, and the court may in every cause or matter deal with the matter in controversy, so far as regards the rights and interests of the parties actually

Cause of action

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