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Insurance

33 Vict. c. 121, s. 12. As to relief against forfeiture for not insuring against fire according to covenants in a lease, see (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 146, and FORFEITURE. For insurances under mortgages,

Injunction

a minister to a dissenting chapel; the dealing with or the sailing of a ship: the breach of covenants; and see Shelfer v. City of London Electric Lighting Co., (1895) 1 Ch 322 (323). In a proper

Inevitable accident

of rent or an omission by the lessee to repair. The expression is also very commonly used in covenants for production of documents, exempting the covenator from liability in the event of destruction by fire or other

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Implication

& Co. v. Brent Cross Service Co., (1934) 1 KB 46]; (English) Law of Property Act, 1925 (implied covenants). An implication may be removed by express words supplying the agreed meaning which would otherwise have been left

Marshalsea, Court of the

which case the inquest was taken by a jury of the country); and if all debts, contracts, and covenants where both of the contracting parties belonged to the royal household, and then the inquest was composed of

Novation

Novation, the substitution, with the creditor's consent, of a new debtor for an old one. The cases on novation between a customer and a firm will be found discussed in Lindley on Partnership. Slight evidence is...

Never Indebted, plea of

Never Indebted, plea of, a species of traverse which occurred in actions of debt on simple contract, and was resorted to when the defendant meant to deny in point of fact the existence of any express...

Married women's property

Married women's property, At Common Law, a woman, by marrying, transferred the ownership of all her property, real and personal, present and future, to her husband absolutely, so that he might sell, pay his debts out...

Market overt

Market overt, an open or public market. Contracts of sale which transfer the property as against a real owner though not the seller are binding, if made according to the following rules.--(1)The sale must be in...

Lex loci contractus

Lex loci contractus (the law of the place of the contract). Generally speaking, the validity of a contract is decided by the law of the place where it was made. If valid there, it is, by...

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