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Expulsion
Expulsion, is the turning out the legal proprietor of an estate in reality before the termination of the estate, A Dictionary of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 57. Is forcing out, Webster American Dictionary, p....
Income
Income, s. 4 of the Income-tax Act, defines the 'total income' to include all income, profits and gains from whatever source deprived. The definition of 'income' in Shaw Wallace & Co. case, 1932 (59) IA 206,...
Indecent representation of women
Indecent representation of women, means the depiction in any manner of the figure of a woman, her form or body or any part thereof in such a way as to have the effect of being indecent,...
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Judgment
Judgment [fr. judgment, Fr.], judicial determination; decision of a Court. Under the former practice of the superior Courts, this term was usually applied only to the Common Law Courts, the term 'decree' being in general use...
Luxury
Luxury, as an entirely relative term; a free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastees; also a mode of life characterized by material abundance and gratification of expensive...
Lurgulary
Lurgulary, casting any corrupt or poisonous thing into the water.
Embracery
Embracery, an attempt to influence a jury corruptly in favour of one party in a trial, by promises, persuasions, entreaties, money, entertainments, and the like. The punishment for this mis-demeanour in the person embracing and the...
Malecreditus, one of bad credit, who is not to be trusted, Fleta, 1.1, c. xxxviii.
Maledicta expositio qu' corrumpit textum. 4 Co. 35.-(It is a bad exposition which corrupts the text.)
Malversation
Malversation, misbehaviour in an office, employment, or commission, as breach of trust, extortion, etc. Malversation, official corruption, a misbehaviour, especially by someone exercising an office, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 971.
Martinmas
Martinmas, the feast of St. Martin of Tours, on the 11th November; sometimes corrupted into martilmas or martlemas. It is the third of the four cross quarter-days of the year.
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