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Conditional fee agreements

provides for that person's fees and expenses, or any part of then, to be payable only in specified circumstances; (c) complies with such requirements (if any) as may be prescribed by Lord Chancellor; and (d) is not

Collateral

A security described as collateral may, nevertheless, in view of its covenants and other provisions and the surrounding circumstances of the case, be held to be complete, perfect and independent security, although, where the words used by

Condition of service

their Lordships are unable in the absence of any such special significance, to regard provisions which prescribe the circumstances under which the employer is to be entitled to terminate the service as otherwise than conditions of the

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Copyhold

does the timber, whence the maxim, 'The oak scorns to grow save on free land.' There are four circumstances necessary to the existence of a copyhold estate:'(1) A manor; (2) a court; (3) the land must be

Confession

witnesses. In the event, however, the Court is otherwise in a position having due regard to the attending circumstances believes the witness before whom the confession is made and is otherwise satisfied that the confession is in

Confidence trick

person so fradulently obtaining possession may be convicted of larceny. In order to reduce the taking under such circumstances from larceny to fraud the transaction must be incomplete. The term 'confidence trick' is also familiarly applied to

Confidential relationship

the presumption are left unlimited by definition, wide open for identification on the facts and in all the circumstances of each particular case as it arises, Graig, Menecar (in re:) v. Middleton, (1971) Ch 95.

Confusion of boundaries

that there should be some equity super induced by the act of the parties; such as some particular circumstances of fraud, or some confusion, where one person has ploughed too near another, or some gross negligence, omission,

Consider

connotes that there should be active application of the mind by the disciplinary authority after considering the entire circumstances of the case in order to decide the nature and extent of the penalty to be imposed on

Consideration

intended to be in trust for him. In the absence of an express declaration of trust or of circumstances in which the transferee is presumed to hold on trust, the consideration required to give a conveyance its

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