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Leave to defend
Leave to defend. The repealed (English) Bills of Exchange Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict.c.67), commonly called 'Keating's Act,' allowed actions on bills or notes commenced within six months after being due, to be by writ...
Public Authorities, Protection of
Public Authorities, Protection of. Very numerous statues have from time to time protected justices of the peace, constables, surveyors of highways, local boards and other public authorities from vexatious actions for things done in pursuance of...
Trover
Trover [fr. trouver, Fr., to find]. This was a special action upon the case, properly called the action of trover and conversion (see that title), which might be maintained by any person who had either an...
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Quaerens non invenit plegium
Quaerens non invenit plegium, means the plaintiff did not find a pledge. A sheriff's return to a writ requiring him to take security from the plaintiff for prosecution of the plaintiff's claim, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th...
Capias in withernam
Capias in withernam (that you take by way of reprisals). If the goods before an action of replevin had been concealed, so that the sheriff could not replevy them, then, upon plaint being levied in the...
New trial
New trial. If any defect of judgment happen from causes wholly extrinsic, i.e., arising from matters foreign to or dethors the record, the only remedy the party injured by it has (except formerly error coram nobis...
Defence
protection, or guard; in law, a denial by the defendant of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's complaint. In Civil matters, a defence (which is always in writing or printed) is either (1) by statement of
Contributory negligence
Contributory negligence, the question of contributory negligence arises when there has been some act or omission on the claimant's part, which has materially contributed to the damage caused, and is of such a nature that it...
Measure of damage
or damage which it may be supposed be has suffered directly as a natural consequence of the act complained of. The exception is those ases where vindictive or exemplary damages can be given, e.g., libel, slander, violence,
Misconduct
context, the delinquency in performance and its effect on the discipline and the nature of duty. The act complained of must bear a forbidden quality or character and its ambit has to be constructed with reference to
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Complainable - Law Dictionary Search Results
Leave to defend
Leave to defend. The repealed (English) Bills of Exchange Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict.c.67), commonly called 'Keating's Act,' allowed actions on bills or notes commenced within six months after being due, to be by writ...
Public Authorities, Protection of
Public Authorities, Protection of. Very numerous statues have from time to time protected justices of the peace, constables, surveyors of highways, local boards and other public authorities from vexatious actions for things done in pursuance of...
Trover
Trover [fr. trouver, Fr., to find]. This was a special action upon the case, properly called the action of trover and conversion (see that title), which might be maintained by any person who had either an...
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Quaerens non invenit plegium
Quaerens non invenit plegium, means the plaintiff did not find a pledge. A sheriff's return to a writ requiring him to take security from the plaintiff for prosecution of the plaintiff's claim, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th...
Capias in withernam
Capias in withernam (that you take by way of reprisals). If the goods before an action of replevin had been concealed, so that the sheriff could not replevy them, then, upon plaint being levied in the...
New trial
New trial. If any defect of judgment happen from causes wholly extrinsic, i.e., arising from matters foreign to or dethors the record, the only remedy the party injured by it has (except formerly error coram nobis...
Defence
protection, or guard; in law, a denial by the defendant of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's complaint. In Civil matters, a defence (which is always in writing or printed) is either (1) by statement of
Contributory negligence
Contributory negligence, the question of contributory negligence arises when there has been some act or omission on the claimant's part, which has materially contributed to the damage caused, and is of such a nature that it...
Measure of damage
or damage which it may be supposed be has suffered directly as a natural consequence of the act complained of. The exception is those ases where vindictive or exemplary damages can be given, e.g., libel, slander, violence,
Misconduct
context, the delinquency in performance and its effect on the discipline and the nature of duty. The act complained of must bear a forbidden quality or character and its ambit has to be constructed with reference to
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