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Notice
mortgage as against a subsequent registered incumbrancer, even with express notice. The principle on which this case was decided has become statutory under the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, and the (English) Land Charges Act, 1925.
Obscene
it was so held down to 1708 in which year Queen v. Read, 11 Mod 205 QB, was decided, In 1727 in the case against one Curl it was ruled for the first time that it was
Oral argument
remembered point in favour. In any but freak situations, oral argument is a must, The Common Law Tradition: Deciding Appeals, Karl No. Llewellyn, 240 (1960). Means an advocate's spoken presentation before a court (esp. an appellate court)
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Parish meeting
council, at least twice a year. The proceedings must not begin earlier than 6 p.m. Every question is decided by a majority of those present at a meeting, and voting, the decision of the chairman being final
Part-payment of purchase price
Part-payment of purchase price, it has to be decided in each case whether or not a payment was made as earnest or part payment of the price,
Payment of Money into Court
to the judge or jury until all questions of liability and amount of debt or damages have been decided, but the judge shall, in exercising his discretion as to costs, take into account both the fact that
Peeress
line it is usually confined), or marriage, but they have never had the legislative power, and it was decided in Viscountess Rhondda's Claim, (1922) 2 AC 339, that a peeress of the United Kingdom in her own
Penalty
state expressly in their contract that the sum named is 'liquidated damages' will not prevent the Court from deciding that it is a penalty. 'The cases upon the subject of penalty or liquidated damages are very numerous.
Pending
impending remaining undecided, not terminated, waiting, State of Maharashtra v. Chandrasekhara, (1959) Mah LJ 607. Means not yet decided in continuance, in suspense, State v. Haridas Mundhra, (1973-74) 78 Cal WN 929.
Pith and substance
whether an impugned law would relate to the subject-matter within jurisdiction of one legislature or the other is decided by the substance or the real scope of the impugned law and the subject-matter to which it really
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