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Wrongful detention and wrongful confinement
Wrongful detention and wrongful confinement, the cause of action in wrongful detention is based on a wrongful withholding or to the plaintiff's goods. It depends on the defendant being in possession of the plaintiff's goods. If...
Set-off
Set-off, any counter-balance or cross-claim. A defendant's counter demand against the plaintiff, arising out of transaction independent of plaintiff's claim, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1376. The subject of a set-off under the former practice...
Right to begin
Right to begin. If the affirmative of the issue is on the plaintiff, he, in general, has a right to begin. If in replevin the defendant avow for rent in arrear, and the plaintiff reply reins...
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Qu' est eadem
allege, that the supposed trespasses mentioned in the plea were the same as those whereof the plaintiff had complained. This allegation was usually termed qu' est eadem. It was equivalent to a traverse of the time and
Nonsuit
Nonsuit [non est prosecutus, Lat.]. The judge orders a nonsuit when the plaintiff fails to make out a legal cause of action or fails to support his pleadings by any evidence; whether the evidence which he...
Non pros
Non pros., abbrev. For non prosequitur (he [the plaintiff] does not pursue [his action]). Where the plaintiff failed to take the proper step in his action in the proper time, the defendant entered what was called...
Negligence
Negligence, acting carelessly, a question of law or fact or of mixed fact and law, depending entirely upon the nature of a duty, which the person charged with negligence has failed to comply with or perform...
Restoration
Restoration, Restoration under s. 70 of the Indian Contract Act means that the defendant would have to restore the goods to the plaintiff by delivering the same to the plaintiff. As long as there is intimation...
Libel
consists in using language which others knowing the circumstances would reasonably think to be defamatory of the person complaining of any injured by it.' The term also legally includes such writings as are of a blasphemous, treasonable,
Existence or extent of a legal right
Existence or extent of a legal right, Ordinarily and generally, in any suit including the one under art. 131 the competition is between the legal right of the plaintiff and the defendant. But primarily, and almost...
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Complainable - Law Dictionary Search Results
Wrongful detention and wrongful confinement
Wrongful detention and wrongful confinement, the cause of action in wrongful detention is based on a wrongful withholding or to the plaintiff's goods. It depends on the defendant being in possession of the plaintiff's goods. If...
Set-off
Set-off, any counter-balance or cross-claim. A defendant's counter demand against the plaintiff, arising out of transaction independent of plaintiff's claim, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1376. The subject of a set-off under the former practice...
Right to begin
Right to begin. If the affirmative of the issue is on the plaintiff, he, in general, has a right to begin. If in replevin the defendant avow for rent in arrear, and the plaintiff reply reins...
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Qu' est eadem
allege, that the supposed trespasses mentioned in the plea were the same as those whereof the plaintiff had complained. This allegation was usually termed qu' est eadem. It was equivalent to a traverse of the time and
Nonsuit
Nonsuit [non est prosecutus, Lat.]. The judge orders a nonsuit when the plaintiff fails to make out a legal cause of action or fails to support his pleadings by any evidence; whether the evidence which he...
Non pros
Non pros., abbrev. For non prosequitur (he [the plaintiff] does not pursue [his action]). Where the plaintiff failed to take the proper step in his action in the proper time, the defendant entered what was called...
Negligence
Negligence, acting carelessly, a question of law or fact or of mixed fact and law, depending entirely upon the nature of a duty, which the person charged with negligence has failed to comply with or perform...
Restoration
Restoration, Restoration under s. 70 of the Indian Contract Act means that the defendant would have to restore the goods to the plaintiff by delivering the same to the plaintiff. As long as there is intimation...
Libel
consists in using language which others knowing the circumstances would reasonably think to be defamatory of the person complaining of any injured by it.' The term also legally includes such writings as are of a blasphemous, treasonable,
Existence or extent of a legal right
Existence or extent of a legal right, Ordinarily and generally, in any suit including the one under art. 131 the competition is between the legal right of the plaintiff and the defendant. But primarily, and almost...
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