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Company
that principle was first, in 1855, applied to ordinary companies, so few unlimited companies now remain, since the conversion of unlimited into limited companies was allowed in 1879, and see now s. 16 of the Companies Act,
Bought and Sold Notes
the buyer a 'bought note,' these being now the usual terms, though formerly their use was sometimes the converse. When each note discloses the name of both parties to the transaction, each is a complete memorandum of
Co-respondent
trial by jury in the court, be tried on the same principles and manner as actions for criminal conversation were tried before the commencement of the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (partly repealed), and the provision of
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Colloquium
Colloquium, 1. A talking together; a conversation. 2. An old term in pleading applied to the statement in declaration for libel or slander that the
Accessorium non ducit, sed sequitur suum principale
to that of the principal, and is extinguished by the release or discharge of the latter; but the converse does not hold. So, likewise, interest of money is accessory to the principal, and must, in legal language,
Consent
SCC 8: AIR 1979 SC 154 (168): (1979) 1 SCR 664. Every consent involves a submission but the converse does not follow, and mere act of submission does not involve consent. For constituting consent, there must be
Consols
of different taxes, or for the maintenance of different parts of the public service. See CONSOLIDATED FUND, and CONVERSION OF STOCK.
Alteration of share capital
Act, 1929, the share capital of a company may be altered by increase (s. 53), consolidation or division, conversion of shares into stock and reconversion or cancellation of unissued capital (s. 50), or redemption of redeemable preference
Abbreviators
Abbreviators, officers who assisted in drawing up the Pope's briefs, and reducing petitions into proper form, for their conversion into Papal Bulls. One who abbreviates, abridges or shortens, Black's Law disctionary, 7th Edn., p. 3.
Accession
artificial means, as by the growth of vegetables, the pregnancy of animals, the embroidering of cloth, or the conversion of wood or metal into utensils, the original owner of the thing was entitled by his right of
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