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Qabzadar

Qabzadar, was in old settlement decrees frequently used loosely to cover either under-proprietary rights or occupancy rights. But the correct intention in each case

Prize Court

true that under the old practice the captors applied for a condemnation of the ship, but if a decree of condemnation was made it decreed a good and lawful prize to the Crown, and it was by

the promise, Wilson v. Carnley, (1908) 1 KB 729. In the case of a promise made after a decree nisi for divorce and pending decree absolute the House of Lords held that the promise was not void

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Legitimacy Declaration Act, 1858 (English)

any real or personal estate situated in England, may apply to the High Court of Justice for a decree, declaring that the petitioner is the legitimate child of his parents, and that the marriage of his father

Court

Construction Company, Raipur, AIR 2006 Chattisgarh 12. The tribunal which is to exercise the jurisdiction for executing the decree in question is 'a court' within the scope of s. 45C of the Banking Companies Act, Ram Narain

In personam

seek recovery of damages, etc. so in equity the court acts in personam; thus it will make a decree against a defendant provided he is within the jurisdiction although the subject-matter of the suit may be situate

pro confesso

as though confessed [the plaintiff's pleadings were taken pro confesso since the defendant did not appear] see also decree pro confesso at decree

Action

defined to be any judicial proceeding, which, if conducted to a determination, will result in a judgment or decree. The action is said to be terminate at judgment, 1 Morris M. Estate, Estate's Pleadings, Practice and Forms,

Decretal

Appertaining to a decree containing a decree as a decretal epistle

Continental system

The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree which Napoleon I issued from Berlin Nov 21 1806 declaring the British Isles to be in a state

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