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Authorities
Authorities, the citations which are made of laws, acts of the legislature, precedents, decided cases, and opinions of text writers. See PRECEDENT.
Away-going, or Way-going crops
custom or usage has been held to be reasonable and valid, see Wigglesworth v. Dallison, 1 Sm LC, decided by Lord Mansfield in 1799, and to apply to tenants by parol agreement as well as by deed
Bad faith
introduced into a criminal trial because it might confuse to jury and deflect them from their task of deciding whether the public office had been abused by the conduct of office holder, although there might be cases
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Battel, wager of
criminal cases, and in the obsolete real action called a writ of action. The question at issue was decided by the result of a personal combat between the parties, or, in the case of a writ of
Bench trial
Bench trial, means a trial in which there is no jury and the judge decides the case, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn., (2005), p. 47.
Berghmoth, or Berghmote
Sax., a hill, and gemote, an assembly], an assembly or Court upon a hill, held in Derbyshire, for deciding pleas and controversies among the miners, Squire on Anglo-Saxon Government.
Betting
any street or public place, or in any place to which the public have access [including, as was decided in Langrishe v. Archer, (1882) 10 QBD 44, a railway carriage on its journey], is declared to be
Bonus judex secundum equum et bonum judicat, et equitatem stricto juri prefert
Bonus judex secundum equum et bonum judicat, et equitatem stricto juri prefert [Lat.], A good judge decides according to justice and right, and prefers equity to strict law.
Prejudical
Of or pertaining to the determination of some matter not previously decided as a prejudical inquiry or action at law
Paroxysm
The fit attack or exacerbation of a disease that occurs at intervals or has decided remissions or intermissions
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