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Deposition

the best evidence. But it may be read not only where it appears that the witness is actually dead, but in all cases where he is dead for all purposes of evidence: as where diligent search has

Magna Carta

do die, and our sheriff or bailiff do show our letters-patents of our summons for debt, which the dead man did owe to us, it shall be lawful to our sheriff or bailiff to attach and inroll

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Graveyard

person who does not belong to the family of the founder is permitted to be bury to his dead. On the other hand if any member of the public is permitted to be buried in a graveyard

Birth, Concealing

person who shall, by any secret disposition (see R. v. Brown, 1870 LR 1 CCR 244) of the dead body of a child, whether such child died before, at, or after his birth, endeavour to conceal the

Corpse

v. Sharpe, (1857) 26 LJ C 47; R. v. Kenyon, (1901) 36 LJ News. 571. Refusing to bury dead bodies by those whose duty it is to do so is punishable by the temporal courts, independently of

Mortmain

Mortmain [fr. mort, Fr., dead, and main hand], such a state of possession of land as makes it inalienable; whence it is said

stock-in-trade which he buys or makes for sale, but all goods and chattels, fixed or movable, live or dead, which he keeps for permanent employment in his business, C.I.T. v. Taj Mahal Hotel, (1971) 3 SCC 550:

Widow

Widow, a woman whose husband is dead and who has not remarried, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1592. A widow is entitled equally with

force

the use of threats or intimidation for the purpose of gaining control over or preventing resistance from another dead·ly force : force that is intended to cause or that carries a substantial risk of causing death or

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