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Habeas corpora juratorum
Habeas corpora juratorum, Law Latin (that you have the bodies of the jurors), a process which issued out of the Court of Common Pleas, commanding the sheriff to summon a jury. The practice was similar to the distringas from the King's Bench and Exchequer for the same purpose. Abolished by C.L.O. Act, 1852, s. 104.Is a writ or order requiring that a prisoner be brought before a court at a stated time and place to decide the legality of his detention or imprison-ment, Webster American Dictionary, p. 856.Commands the Judge of the inferior court to produce the body of the defendant with a statement of the cause of his detention, to do and to receive what-ever the higher court shall decree, A Dictionary of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 500.Is a high prerogative writ of English Common Law, Habeas Corpus Act of 1979 and 1816 are basis of security for the enjoyment of personal freedom, Webster American Dictionary, p. 856.In India every High Court is empowered to issue the prerogative writ...
Corporace
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Corporas
The corporal or communion cloth...
Hematoidin
A crystalline or amorphous pigment free from iron formed from hematin in old blood stains and in old hemorrhages in the body It resembles bilirubin When present in the corpora lutea it is called haeligmolutein...
City's cash
City's cash, the revenues derived from the corpora-tion's estates are usually known as 'city's cash', and are applied for charitable, educational, ceremonial and other purposes, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 29, para 60, p. 45....
Common seal
Common seal, a seal used by a corporation as the symbol of their incorporation, and see CORPORA-TION....
Controlled business
Controlled business, the definition of 'controlled business' contemplates two kinds of insurers--(i) insurers who carry on life business only, and (ii) insurers who carry on composite business, that is to say certain other business which does not ex facie come within controlled business, Under sub-clause (a) of s. 2(3)(i) controlled business covers the entire life business of an insurer if he carries on no other class of insurance business and under sub-clause (b) all the business appertaining to his life insurance business is included if he is a composite insurer. The controlled business in either case is intended to embrace all the business concerning life insurance. In the first case it means the whole of the business of the insurer and in the second case the part which comes within the life businessbut not other, National Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Life Insurance Corporation of India, AIR 1963 SC 1911 (1913): (1964) 2 SCR 182. [Life Insurance Corpora-tion Act, (31 of 1950), s. 2(3)(i) E...
corpora delicti
The substantial and fundamental fact necessary to prove the commission of a crime.The material substance (as the body of the victim of a murder) upon which a crime has been committed....
Corporations, Municipal
Corporations, Municipal. The many statutes affect-ing these bodies are consolidated by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882. See also (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), which repeals many of the previous Acts, except as to London, and codifies the enactments relating to England and Wales. See MUNICIPAL CORPORA-TIONS....
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