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Infant
2 QB 1], executed contracts of marriage, representative acts as executor or trustee, contracts for necessaries. In an action brought for the price of goods, if the defendant pleads infancy, the onus is on the plaintiff to … cases either void or voidable. See AGE. At Common Law, the contracts of infants are divided into three classes: 1st. Those which are absolutely void; such as are positively injurious to the interests of the infant, and
Civil Law
one re-elected being Appius Claudius. In the former year the whole ten had been taken from the patrician class, but this year three of them were plebeians. The new laws drawn up by this new commission having … Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name
Deposit
mere consent and agreement of the parties. the Common Law has made no such division. There is another class of deposits, called involuntary, which may be without the assent or even knowledge of the depositor; as lumber, … 49. By s. 49(2), where the Court refuses to grant specific performance of a contract or in any action for the return of a deposit the Court may, if it thinks fit, order the repayment of any
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Executor
full power from the will he can act as executor before probate obtained. He may even commence an action before probate, and it is usually sufficient if he obtain probate in time to prove his title if … Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 591. The leading duties and responsibilities of an executor may be thus classed:- (1) He will not be allowed as against creditors extravagant funeral expenses if the testator died insolvent; and
Newspaper
Newspaper, means any printed periodical work containing public news or comments on public news and includes such other class of printed periodical work as may, from time to time, be notified in this behalf by the Central … Libel.--Under the (English) Libel Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 96), s. 2, the defendant in any action for a libel contained in a public newspaper may plead an apology and payment into Court. the (English)
Trust
informally or indirectly made, as by a letter under his hand, by his statement of defence in an action, or by a recital in a deed, provided it relate to the subject-matter, and the precise nature and … the principles governing the rights of property: for qui h'ret in litera h'ret in cortice. Trusts may be classed thus:- (I.) Express, or defined by words; divided into- (a) Trusts executed, perfect, complete, or constituted. (b) Trusts
Tail
The limitation of an estate so that it can be inherited only by the fee owner's issue or class of issue, Black's Law dictionary 7th Edn., p. 1466. An estate-tail in land now constitutes a settlement. [(English) … estate-tail were two: viz., a fine, according to the statute law (which was a compromise of a fictitious action), giving a base fee commensurate with the existence of the issue upon whom the estate-tail would (if unbarred)
Public interest litigation
Court of law for the enforcement of public interest or general interest in which the public or a class of the community have pecuniary interest or some interest by which their legal rights or liabilities are affected, … Public interest litigation, lexically the expression 'PIL' means a legal action intended in a Court of law for the enforcement of public interest or general interest in which the
Improvement area
out the area by agreement or compulsorily; see ss. 38 and 39 of the 1936 Act. Before taking action under the resolution the local authority must give an undertaking to find suitable accommodation for persons who may
Tort
consisting in the infringement of a right created otherwise than by a contract. Torts are divisible into three classes, according as they consist in the infringement of a jus in rem, or in breech of a duty … or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions in contract and actions in tort: see as to county Court jurisdiction in actions
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