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Assize, or assise

or ordinance, e.g., Assize of Clarendon; also a jury, who sit together for the purpose of trying a cause, or rather a Court of jurisdiction which summons jury by a commission of assize to take the assizes. … this section, to try and determine matrimonial causes of any class prescribed by the Lord Chancellor with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice and the President of the Probate Division. The commissioner has all the powers

In jure non remota causa, sed proxima spectatur

by perils of the sea is within the policy though it would not have happened but for the concurrent action of some cause, as unseaworthi-ness, which is not within it. The maxim is also frequently applied to

Nemo debet bis vexari, si constat curi' quod sit pro una et eadem causa

and the same cause.) In civil actions the general rule is, that the judgment of a Court of concurrent jurisdiction directly upon the point, is, as a plea, a bar, or as evidence, conclusive between the same

jurisdiction

decisions of lower tribunals and to reverse, affirm, or modify those decisions compare original jurisdiction in this entry concurrent jurisdiction : jurisdiction that is shared by different courts and that may allow for removal [two states may … jurisdiction giving a court the power to adjudicate claims (as counterclaims and cross-claims) because they arise from a cause of action over which the court has original jurisdiction ;specif : supplemental jurisdiction acquired by a federal court

Accident

a mishap, an extraordinary incident; something not expected. It is also a head of equitable jurisdiction, which was concurrent with that of the Courts of Law. Means an unlook for mishap or an untoward event which is … who suffers from it, that its occurrence is unexpected and without design on his part, though either intentionally caused by the author to the act or otherwise, Regional Director ESI Corpr v. Froncis De Costa, 1993 Supp

Mortgage

Act, in the absence of a power of leasing, a valid lease could only be granted with the concurrence of both mortgagor and mortgagee, see Keech v. Hall, (1745) 1 Doug 21; 2 Sm. L.C. In West … 12, and 1933, s. 9; and for permitted increase of interest, s. 4 of the 1920 Act. All causes for redemption or foreclosure of mortgages are assigned to the Chancery Division of the High Court: (English) Jud.

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