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Collective litigation
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Digest
books, containing the opinions and writings of eminent lawyers, digested in a systematical method. (See PANDECTS.) An ordered collection of legal principles, as Mr. Justice Stephen's Digest of the Criminal Law. Also an arrangement of the results … (usually transcribed from the marginal or head notes of the reporters) of the decisions of the courts upon litigated points of law, as Fisher's Common Law Digest, Mews's Digest of English Case Law, the Law Reports Digest,
Receiver
Receiver, is a person appointed for the collection or protection of property. He is appointed either by the court or out of court by individuals or … debtor's property. A receiver may also be appointed by way of 'equitable execution' where the property of a litigant against whom judgment has been obtained cannot be made available by fi. fa., elegit, or other ordinary process
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Challenge
or defendant; that the sheriff or returning officer holds land depending upon the same title with that in litigation between the parties; that the sheriff, etc., is under the distress of the plaintiff or defendant; that the … favour. (1) A challenge to the array is an exception to all the jurors returned by the sheriff collectively, not for any defect in them, but for some partiality or default in the sheriff or his under-officer
Brief
Indian Edn. (2005), p. 60. Means a written statement setting out the legal contentions of a party in litigation, especially on appeal, a document preferred by counsel as the basis for arguing a case, consisting of legal … or hearing. See BARRISTER. Also a document bearing the royal signature addressed to bishops and clergy, authorizing the collection in churches of money for charitable purposes therein mentioned. The issue of such documents was regulated by 4
settlement
2 a : an agreement reducing or resolving differences ;esp : an agreement between litigants that concludes the litigation [the states finally agreed upon a and a consent decree "W. J. Brennan, Jr."] [entered into a property … al."] 3 : closing [ costs] 4 : the transfer of funds between a payor bank and a collecting bank in order to complete transactions for customers
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