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Evidence

The mode of taking evidence on a trial in the Common Law Courts differed from that which was usual in the … in issue between parties. Something (including testimony, documents and tangible objects) that tends to prove or disprove the existence of an

Negotiorum gestor

is an implication of this sort wholly unknown to the Common Law, where there has been a subsequent ratification of the … to exert the requisite skill and knowledge to accomplish the object or business which he undertakes; to do everything which is

Rescission

1893. A contract for the sale of real estate very commonly contains a power for the vendor to rescind the contract … the contract if the purchaser makes or insists upon any objection or requisition which the vendor is unable or unwilling to

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Collusion

is essentially play-acting by two or more persons for one common purpose - a concerted performance of a fabula disguised as … parties who can deal with each other independently with the object of entering into an arrangement which may serve as a

Plea

declaration; anciently a suit or action. Pleas were divided into common pleas, relating to civil causes, and pleas of the Crown, … a plea was resorted to by a defendant when an objection was not apparent on the bill itself, or, as the

Fraud

1. A term used in a variety of meanings. At Common Law, fraud is actionable under the heading of deceit (q.v.). … the Act to something else which quite foreign to its object and beyond its scope.' (Craies on Statute Law, 7th edn.,

Discovery

Discovery, revealing or disclosing matter. The Courts of Common Law were originally unable to compel a litigant to disclose … Urban District Council, (1897) 2 QB 111]. A party can object to make discovery of any document which may tend to

Damages

damages are said to be 'unliquidated'; see Odgers on the Common Law. Damages, too, may be further classified as-- (1) Contemptuous … though the action was a proper one to bring, its object was not so much the recovering of damages as the

Bribe

the benefit of the giver. It is a misdemeanour at common law for a public officer, whether judicial or ministerial, to … in office or holding a position of trust, with the object of inducing him to disregard his official duty or betray

Alien

and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1933, infra. At common law aliens were subject to very many disqualifications, the nature … being empowered to make regulations for carrying into effect the objects of the Act. S. 25 contains a saving for letters

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Evidence

The mode of taking evidence on a trial in the Common Law Courts differed from that which was usual in the … in issue between parties. Something (including testimony, documents and tangible objects) that tends to prove or disprove the existence of an

Negotiorum gestor

is an implication of this sort wholly unknown to the Common Law, where there has been a subsequent ratification of the … to exert the requisite skill and knowledge to accomplish the object or business which he undertakes; to do everything which is

Rescission

1893. A contract for the sale of real estate very commonly contains a power for the vendor to rescind the contract … the contract if the purchaser makes or insists upon any objection or requisition which the vendor is unable or unwilling to

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Collusion

is essentially play-acting by two or more persons for one common purpose - a concerted performance of a fabula disguised as … parties who can deal with each other independently with the object of entering into an arrangement which may serve as a

Plea

declaration; anciently a suit or action. Pleas were divided into common pleas, relating to civil causes, and pleas of the Crown, … a plea was resorted to by a defendant when an objection was not apparent on the bill itself, or, as the

Fraud

1. A term used in a variety of meanings. At Common Law, fraud is actionable under the heading of deceit (q.v.). … the Act to something else which quite foreign to its object and beyond its scope.' (Craies on Statute Law, 7th edn.,

Discovery

Discovery, revealing or disclosing matter. The Courts of Common Law were originally unable to compel a litigant to disclose … Urban District Council, (1897) 2 QB 111]. A party can object to make discovery of any document which may tend to

Damages

damages are said to be 'unliquidated'; see Odgers on the Common Law. Damages, too, may be further classified as-- (1) Contemptuous … though the action was a proper one to bring, its object was not so much the recovering of damages as the

Bribe

the benefit of the giver. It is a misdemeanour at common law for a public officer, whether judicial or ministerial, to … in office or holding a position of trust, with the object of inducing him to disregard his official duty or betray

Alien

and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1933, infra. At common law aliens were subject to very many disqualifications, the nature … being empowered to make regulations for carrying into effect the objects of the Act. S. 25 contains a saving for letters

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