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Desertion
at least three years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or where the offence appears as a cross-charge, of the answer. Desertion as a ground of divorce differs from the statutory grounds of adultery and cruelty … life involved, the Court has discouraged attempts at defining desertion, there being no general principle applicable to all cases. Desertion is not the withdrawal from a place but from a state of things, for what the law
Accomplice
be called for the defence, but should he give evidence tending to incriminate his co-prisoner, such co-prisoner may cross-examine him, R. v. Hadwen, 1902 (1) KB 882; see also R. v. Rowland, 1910 (1) KB 458; R. … without corroboration in material particulars. She stands on a higher pedestal than an injured witness. In the latter case, there is injury on the physical form, while in the former, it is both physical as well as
Estate
subdivided into-- (a) Reminders created by convention of parties, which are (a) vested, (b) contingent or executory, (c) cross. (b) Reversions arising by operation of law. (3) The number and connection of the tenants; either (A) Severalty. … Means 'An estate in the land is a time in the land, or land for a time', Walsingbem's case, (1573) 2 plowd 547. Means was 'the immediate reversion to the tenants' leases, then a freeholder who had
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Remainder
called the particular estate.' Remainders are of three kinds:-(1) vested of executed; (2) contingent or executory; and (3) cross. The seven following rules affecting the remainders should be observed:- (1) There must be a present or particular … upon your decease, and failure of your issue, to A. and his heirs.' In any of these three cases A. would take an estate in fee-simple, giving him a right to the possession of the land upon
Mark
lie, and an injunction may be obtained. See TRADE MARKS. Those who are unable to write, sign a cross, for their mark, when they execute any document. See MARKSMAN. It includes a device, brand, heading, label, ticket, … of a commodity. If one use the mark of another to do him damage, an action on the case will lie, and an injunction may be obtained. See TRADE MARKS. Those who are unable to write, sign
Electric supply-line
apparatus connected therewith for the purpose of so conveying, transmitting or distributing such energy and includes any support cross-arm, stay, strut or safety device erected to set up for that purpose. [Indian Electricity Act, 1910, s. 2
search
administrative standards established in a nonarbitrary regulatory scheme. bor·der search : a search made of a person upon crossing into the U.S. at a border or its equivalent (as the airport at which the person arrives in … search can only be determined by “balancing the need to search against the invasion which the search entails.” Cases following Camara have stated that the probable cause requirement is fulfilled by showing that the search meets reasonable
Examination
or science. A witness undergoes three examinations: (1) Examination-in-chief, which is made by the party calling him; (2) Cross-examination (see that title) by the opposite party; and (3) Re-examination, by the party who called the witness, which … Examination, shall include the examination of blood, blood stains, semen swabs in case of sexual offences, sputum and sweat, hair samples and finger nail clippings by the use of modern and
Dying declaration
is neither made on oath nor in the presence of the accused. It is, therefore, not tested by cross-examination on behalf of the accused. But a dying declaration is admitted in evidence by way of an exception … resulted in his death and it becomes relevant under s. 32(1) of the Indian Evidence Act in a case in which the cause of that person's death comes into question. It is true that a dying declaration
jury
members. According to federal law, federal grand and petit juries must be “selected at random from a fair cross-section of the community in the district or division wherein the court convenes.” State jury selection varies and occasionally … them by a judge in order to determine property rights. Jury verdicts began to be used in felony cases in the early 1200s as the use of the trial by ordeal declined. The questions put to those
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