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Nonsuit

to find a verdict for the defendant, and the usual consequences of such verdict will follow, Fox v. Star Newspaper Co., 1900 AC 19; but a judge cannot order a nonsuit on plaintiff's opening without the consent … action or fails to support his pleadings by any evidence; whether the evidence which he gives can be considered any evidence at all of a cause of action is a question of law for the judge. By

Abandonment

on Building Contracts, 6th Edn., 1933. As to abandonment of proceedings, see. R.S.C., Ord. XXVI, and Fox v. Star Newspaper Co., 1900 AC 19; as to abandoned mines, see the (English) Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act, 1872, ss. … Means the relinquishing of a right or interest with the intention of never again claiming it. In the context of contracts of the sale of land, courts sometimes use the term abandonment as if it were synonymous

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Discontinuance

to whom the plaintiff desires to discontinue. R.S.C., Ord. XXVI., gives the only mode of discontinuance, Fox v. Star, etc., Co., 1900 AC 19, and requires the leave of the Court or judge after an early stage. … 44. The learning relative to discontinuances has now become of no account, as far as future transactions are concerned, not merely inconsequence of the abolition of fines, but by the effect of the Real Property Limitation Act,

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