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Dead pledge

Dead pledge [mortuum vadium], a mortgage of lands or goods

dead hand : mortmain

nondeadly force in this entry NOTE: As a general rule, deadly force may be used without incurring criminal or tort liability

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animal organism is capable of producing a morbid noxious or deadly effect upon it as morphine is a deadly poison the

Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III...

Deposition: (1) Depriving of a dignity, etc. (2) The act of giving public testimony, technically, the evidence put down in...

Birth, Concealing. See Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 60, which enacts that every person who shall, by any...

Corpse. Removing a corpse from a grave is a misdemeanour at Common Law, Reg. v. Sharpe, (1857) 26 LJ C...

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

Plant, has been defined as the tools, machinery, fixtures, buildings, grounds, etc. of a factory or business; the apparatus or...

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