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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...
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
principal succeeding ones, the Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 42), the (English) Civil Procedure Act (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27) [see Read v. Price, (1909) 2 KB 724], and
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,
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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
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
Outlawry
in wilfully avoiding the execution of the process of the King's Court. Outlawry has long been obsolete in civil proceedings, and is formally abolished by the Civil Procedure Acts Repeal Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c.
Pension
Pensions are payable under special statutory pro-visions to grantees from the Crown, for political, naval and military, police, civil and other services and for services under local authorities under the (English) Local Government Officers' Superannua-tion Act, 1922
Reduction in rank
Reduction in rank, a civil servant is reduced in rank only after an inquiry is held; he is informed of the charges against
Remitter of actions to County Court
Remitter of actions to County Court. See (English) County Courts Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo.5, c. 53), s. 45, which replaces the County Courts Act, 1919, s. 1, which took the place of the County...
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