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Husband and wife
section, as amended, enacts that 'every married woman shall have against all persons, including her husband, the same civil and (unless they be living together or the act complained of took place when they were living together)
Law Reform (UK)
Law Reform (UK). By the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 41), all causes of action shall with certain exceptions survive on the death (after the 24th July, 1934) of...
Laudibus (de) legum angli'
conversation with the young prince on the nature and excellence of the laws of England compared with the civil law and the laws of other countries. He considers at length the mode of trying matters of fact
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King's Bench
their proceedings to be determined here, or, by writ of prohibition, prohibit their progress below. It superintended all civil operations in the kingdom. (See quo warranto.) By writ of mandamus it commanded magistrates to do what their
Mesne profit
profits, but shall not include profits due to improvements made by the person in wrongful possession. [Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), s. 2 (12)] As defined in s. 2(12) of the Code of Civil
Married women's property
Married women's property, At Common Law, a woman, by marrying, transferred the ownership of all her property, real and personal, present and future, to her husband absolutely, so that he might sell, pay his debts out...
Penalty
1289. [Employees' Provident Fund Act, 1952, s. 14] Means recovery of an amount as a penal measure in civil proceedings, or an exaction which is not compensatory in character, Jagjit Cotton Textile Mills v. Chief Commercial Superintendent,
District Judge
of Assam v. Kuseswar Saikia, AIR 1970 SC 1616. District Judge shall mean the Judge of a principal Civil Court of original Jurisdiction, but shall not include a High Court in the exercise of its ordinary or
Negligence
Ltd. v. Larkin Brothers, etc., Ltd., (1934) 1 KB 191. [S. 81, ill. (a), I.P.C.] So in the civil law there are three degrees of negligence: (1) lata culpa, gross neglect; (2) levis culpa, ordinary neglect; and
Nuisance
individual, or a criminal information at the suit of the Attorney-General. (2) It may give ground for a civil action, called an information, by the Attorney-General, either of his own motion or at the instance of some
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