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Challenge [fr. Challenger, O. F., to accuse of], an exception taken either against things or jurors. In civil actions, when...

Leave to defend. The repealed (English) Bills of Exchange Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict.c.67), commonly called 'Keating's Act,' allowed...

Capias in withernam (that you take by way of reprisals). If the goods before an action of replevin had been...

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Contributory negligence, the question of contributory negligence arises when there has been some act or omission on the claimant's part,...

has suffered directly as a natural consequence of the act complained of. The exception is those ases where vindictive or exemplary

New trial. If any defect of judgment happen from causes wholly extrinsic, i.e., arising from matters foreign to or dethors...

Public Authorities, Protection of. Very numerous statues have from time to time protected justices of the peace, constables, surveyors of...

Quaerens non invenit plegium, means the plaintiff did not find a pledge. A sheriff's return to a writ requiring him...

Trover [fr. trouver, Fr., to find]. This was a special action upon the case, properly called the action of trover...

the defendant of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's complaint. In Civil matters, a defence (which is always in writing

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