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Injunction
or the infringement of a patent, for which purposes a Common Law Court might grant them), and injunctions, called 'common injunction,' … a 'stay of proceedings.' Amongst public nuisances, restrainable either upon information or at suit of a private person immediately grieved by
Abatement
action might abate, i.e., cease. A plea in Abatement at Common Law (which by 4 Anne, c. 16, s. 11, had … for quashing or abating the action, on account of an informality, or offered an exception to the personal competency of the
Coroner
Coroner. A very ancient officer at the Common Law, so called because he has principally to do with … which codifies the law as follows:-- Where a coroner is informed that the dead body of a person is lying within
Notice
which are not handed to a purchaser under a title common to other parties will affect purchasers of other parts of … it means not only a formal intimation but also an informal one. The service of a notice would include constructive or
Trust
regard as a rule to the technical terms of the Common or Statutory Law in the limitations of legal estate. Before … be established by any subsequent acknowledgment of the trustee, however informally or indirectly made, as by a letter under his hand,
contract
or transaction in which a party invests money in a common enterprise the profits from which are derived from the efforts … implied in law contract : quasi contract in this entry informal contract : any contract that is not a formal contract
Tail
would (if unbarred) have devolved, and a recovery at the Common Law (which was a real action carried onto judgment), giving … SHELLEY'S CASE), or in tail, i.e., to create the interest. Informal limitations which would have created an entail in wills or
Sunday
1677 (29 Car. 2, c. 7, infra), 'the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday.' It is a dies non juridicus, but an … or a stipendiary magistrate; the consent must be given before information laid, Thorpe v. Priestnall, (1897) 1 QB 159. Rent is
Specific performance
breach of the contract are not a sufficient com-pensation. The Common Law has not recognized this principle; it has only given … justice, and so the means to it too should be informed by equity. That is why he who seeks equity shall
Ejectment
Ejectment, the 'mixed' action at Common Law to recover the possession of land (which is real), … to the tenant in possession (who was the actual defendant), informing him of the action brought by the lessee, and that
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