Class Suit - Law Dictionary Search Results
Action
and perhaps actions penal, to recover some penalty under statute, are properly criminal actions. There were formerly three classes of actions in England: personal actions, in which the plaintiff sought to recover a debt or damages from … Common Law, the Court of Common Pleas at Lancaster, and the Court of Pleas at Durham; and all suits formerly commenced by bill or informa-tion in the Court of Chancery or by a cause in the Court
Vagrants
by (English) Poor Law Act, 1930, s. 150, as to obtaining relief by falsehood. It points out three classes of persons:- 1st, idle and disorderly persons; 2nd, rogues and vagabonds; 3rd, incorrigible rogues. First. Idle and Disorderly … or neglecting while therein to perform the task prescribed by the guardians of the parish or union, if suited to his age and strength, or wilfully destroying or injuring his clothes, or damaging property of the guardians.
Executor
penalty of 100l. and 10l. per cent. on the property would be incurred; and if there be a suit or dispute relative to the will or administration, the probate or letters of administration should be obtained within … 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
Keep your definitions linked to case research
Notice
by registration under the (English) Land Charges Act, 1925, before completion of the purchase: (1) land charges in Class A of s 10 of that Act created after 1888 or acquired after 1888, and not registered within … being known' or a knowing is wide enough in legal circle to include a plaint filed in a suit,' CST v. Subhash, AIR 2003 SC 1628 (1631): (2003) 3 SCC 454.
Plea
plee, Fr.]. this was the name of a defendant's answer of fact to a plaintiff's declaration; anciently a suit or action. Pleas were divided into common pleas, relating to civil causes, and pleas of the Crown, relating … the writ or declaration, and: (2) Peremptory, i.e., in bar of the action. The distinction between these two classes of pleas was that the dilatory showed some ground for quashing the declaration, the peremptory for defeating the
Nuisance
(1) It may give ground for an indictment by a private 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, … offensive, Durga Prasad v. State, AIR 1962 Raj 92. As understood in law is broadly divided into two classes - public nuisance and private nuisance. Public nuisance consists of some acts or omissions which result in violation
Rules of Court
of Court, orders regulating the practice of the Courts; or orders made between parties to an action or suit. (1) General rules regulating the practice of the Courts, both of Common Law and Equity, have from time … motions by counsel; or special, obtained upon motion by counsel. Those granted upon motion by counsel might be classed under the following heads: 1st, those which were granted upon the motion-paper being merely signed by a counsel
Injunction
have for their object the restraining of the defendant from committing some apprehended wrong, there is a third class called mandatory injunctions, where the court goes further and compels a defendant who has actually completed the wrongful … Court might grant them), and injunctions, called 'common injunction,' were frequently granted by that Court to stay a suitor from proceeding in a Court of Common Law to assert a right which it was contrary to equity
Maintenance
maintain itself, or (d) his father or mother, unable to maintain himself or herself, a Magistrate of first class, may upon proof of such neglect or refusal order such person to make a monthly allowance for the … Maintenance, an officious intermeddling in a suit which in no wise concerns one, by assisting either party with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend
Consideration
for refusing specific performance, Pegler v. White, 33 Beav 403. (b) Forbearance for a time to institute a suit upon a well-founded claim, or even upon one which is doubtful, but not upon one utterly unfounded, is … as in the case of mutual promises; and 4th, continuing, i.e., executed in part only. The three last classes are sufficient to support a contract not void for other reasons, Story on Contracts, 71. (d) Considerations moving
- ‹ Prev
- 1
- 3
- Next ›
- Last »
Try the research workspace - 7 days free