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Final decree or judgment
Final decree or judgment, a conclusive decision of the Court, as distinguished from interlocutory. An order upon an undertaking to lodge costs in Court is not a final order under the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914, ss....
Discharge
Discharge, to relieve of a duty. A sheriff is said to be discharged of his prisoner; a prisoner discharged from custody; a jury discharged from the cause. See next title. A rule nisi is discharged when...
Discretion literally
Discretion literally, means and denotes an uncont-rolled power of 'disposal' yet in law, the meaning given to this word appears to be a power decide within the limits allowed by positive rules of law as to...
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Diversity
Diversity, a plea by the prisoner in bar of execution, alleging that he is not the same who was attainted, upon which a jury is immediately empanelled to try the collateral issue thus raised, viz., the...
Domesday, or domesday-book
Domesday, or domesday-book [liber judiciarius vel censualis Angli', Lat.], an ancient record made in the time of William the Conqueror, and now kept at the Record Office, consisting of two volumes, a greater and lesser; the...
Endowed schools
Endowed schools. Schools wholly or partly maintained out of an endowment. The (English) Endowed Schools Acts are 23 Vict. c. 11; 31 & 32 Vict. c. 32; 32 & 33 Vict. c. 56; 36 & 37...
Expectant heir
Expectant heir. A person to whom property will accrue on the death of another person. expectant heirs wishing to anticipate this property have frequently borrowed money, to be repaid when the expected property shall devolve upon...
Extent
Extent, the peculiar remedy to recover debts of record due to the Crown; it differs from an ordinary writ of execution at the suit of a subject, because under it the body, lands, and goods of...
Extradition
Extradition, the surrender by a foreign state of a person accused of a crime to the state where it was committed, in order that he may be tried there. It is recognized as a duty, independent...
Feigned issue
Feigned issue, a proceeding whereby an action was supposed to be brought by consent of the parties to determine some disputed right without the formality of pleading, saving thereby both time and expense. It might be...
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Final decree or judgment
Final decree or judgment, a conclusive decision of the Court, as distinguished from interlocutory. An order upon an undertaking to lodge costs in Court is not a final order under the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914, ss....
Discharge
Discharge, to relieve of a duty. A sheriff is said to be discharged of his prisoner; a prisoner discharged from custody; a jury discharged from the cause. See next title. A rule nisi is discharged when...
Discretion literally
Discretion literally, means and denotes an uncont-rolled power of 'disposal' yet in law, the meaning given to this word appears to be a power decide within the limits allowed by positive rules of law as to...
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Diversity
Diversity, a plea by the prisoner in bar of execution, alleging that he is not the same who was attainted, upon which a jury is immediately empanelled to try the collateral issue thus raised, viz., the...
Domesday, or domesday-book
Domesday, or domesday-book [liber judiciarius vel censualis Angli', Lat.], an ancient record made in the time of William the Conqueror, and now kept at the Record Office, consisting of two volumes, a greater and lesser; the...
Endowed schools
Endowed schools. Schools wholly or partly maintained out of an endowment. The (English) Endowed Schools Acts are 23 Vict. c. 11; 31 & 32 Vict. c. 32; 32 & 33 Vict. c. 56; 36 & 37...
Expectant heir
Expectant heir. A person to whom property will accrue on the death of another person. expectant heirs wishing to anticipate this property have frequently borrowed money, to be repaid when the expected property shall devolve upon...
Extent
Extent, the peculiar remedy to recover debts of record due to the Crown; it differs from an ordinary writ of execution at the suit of a subject, because under it the body, lands, and goods of...
Extradition
Extradition, the surrender by a foreign state of a person accused of a crime to the state where it was committed, in order that he may be tried there. It is recognized as a duty, independent...
Feigned issue
Feigned issue, a proceeding whereby an action was supposed to be brought by consent of the parties to determine some disputed right without the formality of pleading, saving thereby both time and expense. It might be...
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