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Causes celebres
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Double complaint, or Double quarrel
to the archbishop of the province, against the ordinary, for delaying or refusing to do justice in some cause ecclesiastical, as to give sentence, or institute a clerk, as in the celebrated case of Gorham v. Bishop … to do justice in some cause ecclesiastical, as to give sentence, or institute a clerk, as in the celebrated case of Gorham v. Bishop of Exeter, (1850) 19 LJ Ex 376, CP 200, QB 279, in which
Bar, trial at
Bar, trial at, the trial of a cause or prisoner before the Court itself instead of at Nisi Prius. It is confined to cases of great … The procedure for obtaining it is regulated by Rules 150-155 of the Crown Office Rules of 1906. A celebrated trial at bar--of one Arthur Orton for perjury, in swearing that he was Sir Roger Tichborne--took place in
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Marriage
Cape Colony, by Roman Dutch law, see Horak v. Horak, (1861) 3 Searle, 389, and see now Matrimonial Causes Act, 1937, and DIVORCE. Marriages Abroad.--A mixed Ecclesiastical and Common Law, is in force for parties, one at … Marriage with Foreigners Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 40). Marriages in Scotland.--These marriages are either 'regular,' i.e., celebrated by a minister of religion after due notice by the publication of banns, or after posting in a
Civil Law
of subsisting laws; and Servius Tullius, the sixth king, enacted many wise and good laws to maintain the cause of the poor, and to stop the oppressions of the rich. He also revived many of the obsolete … compilations are to be esteemed as the work of two private lawyers; the fragments which Cujacius (the most celebrated of all the interpreters of the Roman law) has placed at the end of the Theodosian Code are
Institutions
treated of. These are: the security they are obliged to give to indemnify Pupils and Minors; the lawful causes exempting persons from being Tutors or Curators, and those for which they may be deprived of their offices. … s. 2(2). The clerk by institution (which may take place anywhere becomes parson as to the spirituality, may celebrate Divine service, enter on the par-sonage house and glebe, and take the profits of the benefice as from
Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum
to him who detains another in custody, and commands him to produce the body, with the day and cause of his caption and detention, and to do, submit to, and receive whatever the judge or Court shall … Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum (that you have the body to answer). This, the most celebrated prerogative writ in the English law, is a remedy for a person deprived of his liberty. It is
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