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Common Counts. The indebitatus (see that title) counts in a declaration for goods sold and delivered, or bargained and sold, for work done, for money lent, for money paid, for money received to the use of the plaintiff, for interest or for money due on an account stated, were so called.-Superseded by the Judicature Acts. See STATE-MENT OF CLAIM....
Money counts
Money counts. Simple contracts, express or implied, resulting in mere debts, are of so frequent occurrence as causes of action, that certain concise forms of counts were devised for suing upon them. These were, before the Judicature Acts, called the ibdebitatus, or common money counts, or money counts....
quantum meruit
quantum meruit [Latin, as much as he/she deserved] 1 : a claim or count grounded on an implied contract that the defendant would pay the plaintiff as much as deserved for services or materials provided ;specif : a count in a common-law action for assumpsit claiming payment of the value of labor provided 2 : a theory or doctrine that permits recovery by a party for services or materials provided despite the absence of an express contract when they were accepted and used by the defendant under circumstances which gave reasonable notice that the plaintiff expected to be paid for them compare unjust enrichment ...
Green cloth
Green cloth. The counting-house of the king's household was commonly called the Green Cloth in respect of the green cloth upon the table whereat the lord steward, the treasurer of the king's house, and other inferior officers sat:-(1) For daily taking the accounts for all expenses of the house-hold. (2) For making provisions for the household, according to the laws and statutes of the realm. (3) For making of payments for the same. (4) For the good government of the king's servants. (5) For payment of the wages of the king's servants. The officers of the counting-house never held plea of anything, 4 Inst. 131....
Hynden
Hynden, an association of ten men, first mentioned in In. 54, where it signifies the person from among whom the consacramentals were to be chosen in the case of deadly feud. From Ath. V. iii. It appears that the members of the 'first-guilds' (congildones) were formed into associations of ten, the enactment running thus: 'That we count ten men together, and let the senior direct the nine in all these things that are to be done; and then let them count their hyndens together, with one hyndenman, who shall admonish the ten (i.e., the ten hyndens) for our common benefit.' Hence it would seem that the eleven who are to hold the money consisted of the senior of each hynden, together with the hydenman who presided over the hynden of the hyndens, i.e., ten hyndens. The number XII. mentioned in Ath. V. viii. 1 is apparently an error for XI, Anc. Inst. Eng...
Almanack
Almanack [fr. the Arabic particle al, and manach, to count or reckon], a publication in which is recounted the days of the week, month, and year, both common and particular, distinguishing the fasts, feasts, terms, etc., from the common days by proper marks, pointing out also the several changes of the moon, tides, eclipses, etc. It is a part of the law of England, of which the Courts must take notice in the returns of writs, etc., but the almanack to go by is that annexed to the Book of Common Prayer. It is not evidence of the time of sunrise on a particular day, Tutton v. Darke, (1860) 5 H&N 647....
Saint Simonian
A follower of the Count de St Simon who died in 1825 and who maintained that the principle of property held in common and the just division of the fruits of common labor among the members of society are the true remedy for the social evils which exist...
quantum valebant
quantum valebant [Latin, as much as they were worth] 1 : a count in a common-law action of assumpsit to recover the value of goods or materials furnished 2 : a theory or doctrine that permits recovery for materials provided on the basis of an implied contract ...
Quantum valebant
Quantum valebant, means 'as much as they were worth'. At common law, a count in an assumpsit action to recover payment for goods sold and delivered to another, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1255.--(so much as it was worth). Where goods, etc., were delivered at no certain price, or for as much as they were worth in general, then quantum valebat lay, and the plaintiff was to aver them to be worth so much, as where the law obliged one to furnish another with goods or provisions, as an innkeeper to his guests, etc. Compare quantum meruit (supra)....
House of Commons
House of Commons, one of the constituent parts of Parliament, being the assembly of knights of shires, or the representatives of counties; citizens, or the representatives of cities; and burgesses, or the representatives of boroughs.The lowest chamber of British and Canadian Parlia-ment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 744.Property Qualification.--The property qualification of members, which was by 1 & 2 Vict. c. 48, amending 9 Anne, c. 5, by allowing personal property to count fixed at 600l. a year for a county, and 300l. a year for a borough member, was abolished in 1858 by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 26.Payment of Members.--Members were from very early times entitled to payment at the rate of 4s. a day for county, and 2s. a day for borough members, payable by their constituents. This has never been abolished, and is recognized by the unrepeated 6 Hen. 8, c. 16, by which members may not depart from Parliament without licence from the Speaker on pain of losing their 'wages,' though 35 Hen. ...
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