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color of office

color of office :the pretense or appearance of official authority in one who is without the authority claimed

party who has a bad title fradulently to exhibit a colourable ownership, than the want of evidence of the identity of

and new passages introduced, yet, if these alterations be merely colourable, and it is really an attempt to profit by taking

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Action for passing off is an action for deceit, for colourable imitation of plaintiff's mark in relation to his goods which

a sale of other goods under his mark, or a colourable imitation or otherwise so as to be calculated to deceive

wrong and right, between shadows and substance, between equity and colourable glosses and pretences, and not to do according to their

on the statute' is merely a figurative description of a colourable transaction to evade the provisions of a statute and does

observed that fraud in relation to statute must be a colourable transaction to evade the provisions of a statute. 'If a

Extortion [fr. extorqueo, Lat., to wrest away], any oppression under colour of right, as the demanding of a more than legal

Jurisdiction, is a verbal coat of many colours. Jurisdiction originally seems to have had the meaning which Lord

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