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Exemplary damages

that the Court had power to refuse a new trial on the plaintiff alone, and without the defendant consenting to the damages being reduced to such an amount as the Court would not consider excessive had they

Deed

those having legal estates before those having equitable only, and the larger interests should precede the lesser. Then consenting parties and covenantors. After these, those who take any estate or interest, and, amongst these, trustees follow real

Crown cases reserved

of the Crown Cases Act,1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 78), provided the judge who tried the prisoner consented to state a case, though if he refused no court had power to compel him to do so.

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Consentientes et agentes pari pana plectentur

Consentientes et agentes pari pana plectentur [Lat.], Those consenting and those perpetrating are embraced in the same punishment.

Bread

directed by the convicting justices to be published in some newspaper. S. 14 prohibits Sunday baking, and the consents for prosecution for Sunday trading generally, which are required by the (English) Sunday Observance Prosecution Act, 1871 (see

Black list

Licensing Act, 1902 (2 Edw. 7, c. 28), there is power to put an 'habitual drunkard,' if he consents [Commissioner of Metropolitan Police v. Donovan, (1903) 1 KB 895], on a list kept by the police, and

Agentes et consentientes pari p'na plectentur

Agentes et consentientes pari p'na plectentur, 5 Rep. 80-(Acting and consenting parties are liable to the same punishment.)

Volens

Volens, he is said to be willing who either expressly consents or tacitly makes no opposition

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