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Trial
proceeding, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1510. At a trial by jury now, as formerly in the Common Law Courts, the cause is called on, or the prisoner arraigned, before the jury is sworn. The parties … his counsel, the cross-examination being generally conducted by the senior counsel for the defendant. If the defendant's counsel object to any question or any document, all the defendant's counsel are entitled to be heard on the objection,
Act of Parliament
1808 (48 Geo. 3, c. 106). (2) A statute is to be construed according to the intent and object with which it was made, and not according to the mere letter; (3) these points must be considered'the … law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an Act passed under the provisions
Negotiorum gestor
the owner in many of such cases. Nor is an implication of this sort wholly unknown to the Common Law, where there has been a subsequent ratification of the acts by the owner; and sometimes where unauthorized … mandate, there is good reason for requiring him to exert the requisite skill and knowledge to accomplish the object or business which he undertakes; to do everything which is incident to or dependent upon that object or
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Trust
to the interest he intends to give, having regard as a rule to the technical terms of the Common or Statutory Law in the limitations of legal estate. Before 1926 an equitable entail would in the case … or by a recital in a deed, provided it relate to the subject-matter, and the precise nature and object of the trust can be ascertained. a trust cannot be engrafted upon a will unless by a testamentary
Ordinarily
would lie to the Principal District Judge, the court would not be subordinate to it. When in a common parlance the expression 'ordinarily' is used, there may be an option. There may be cases where an exception
Incorporated Law Society
and Equity of the United Kingdom'; since the charter of 1903 it has been officially (as before them commonly) called 'The Law Society.' The Society first instituted lectures for students in 1833, and was made registrar of … both of these two earlier professional Societies and of the Inns of Chancery. The official account of the objects and constitution of the Society will be found in the Society's Handbook published in 1933. The Society is,
Strike
employees employed in an industrial undertaking acting in combination or a concerted refusal or a refusal under a common understanding of em-ployees to continue to work or to accept work where such cessation or refusal is in … See TRADE DISPUTE. S. 1 provides: (1) (a) That any strike is illegal if it-- (i) has any object otherwise or in addition to the furtherance of a trade dispute within the trade or industry in which
Company
memorandum, capable forthwith of exercising all the functions of an incorporated company, and having perpetual succession and a common seal, but with such liability of the members to contribute to the assets of the company in the … persons for banking and of more than twenty persons for carrying on any other business having for its object the acquisition of gain, unless it be formed under special Act of Parliament, or letters-patent, or be a
Food and sale
context, these words can only mean 'whether for human consumption or for any other purpose (including analysis)'. The object is to emphasise that whatever be the purpose of the sale it is sale for the purposes of … described or exhibited as intended for some other use. It is enough if the article is generally or commonly used for human consumption or in the preparation of human food. Where an article is generally or commonly
Pawn or Pledge
to his creditor, to be kept till the debt is discharged. A mortgage of goods is in the Common Law distinguishable from a mere pledge or pawn. By a mortgage the whole legal title passes conditionally to … in the thing, and is entitled to the exclusive possession of it during the time and for the objects for which it is pledged. The pledgee has a right to sell the pledge, when the pledgor fails
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