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Consideration

enforce a covenant without consideration unless the covenant has been executed in law, or a trust had been declared in performance of the promise, Jefferys v. Jefferys, 1 Cr & Ph 138. If the promisor cannot show

Deponent

Deponent [fr. depono, Lat., to lay down], a person who makes an affidavit; a witness; one who gives his testimony in a Court of justice. The person who made an affidavit used formerly to speak of...

Protestant

day of the meeting of his first Parliament or on coronation, which shall first happen, to make a declaration taken from 30 Car. 2, st. 2 (repealed by the (English) Parliamentary Oaths Act, 1866), and expressed therein

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Notification

but mean a Notification published by the authority of law in the Official Gazette. It is on formal declaration and publication of an order and shall have to be in accordance with the declared policies or in

Pronounce

Pronounce, means to proclaim, to utter formally, to utter rhetorically, to declare, to utter, to articulate, Chambers 20th Century Dictionary, New Edition, p. 1030. The term 'pronounce' means to proclaim,

Judgment

the law of the legal consequences attending a proved or admitted state of facts. It is always a declaration that a liability, recognised as within the jural sphere, does or does not exist. A judgment, as the

Petition

petition the sovereign, or the two Houses of Parliament, and all commit-ments and prosecutions for such petitioning are declared by the Bill of Rights (see BILL OF RIGHTS) to be illegal. But by 13 Car. 2, st.

Perpetuating testimony

at all, and by perpetuating the evidence of the attesting witnesses. See DE BENE ESSE. The suit for declaration of legitimacy is in the nature of a suit for perpetuating testimony. See LEGITIMACY DECLARATION ACTS. The Criminal

Pandect', or Digesta

arrangement of materials; or Pandect', a Greek word expressive of the comprehensiveness of the work. It was also declared that no commentaries should be written on this compilation, but per-mission was given to make paratitla, or references

Out of court

case so much as considered by the court. A plaintiff in an action at Common Law must have declared within one year after the service of a writ of summons, otherwise he was out of court, unless

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