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Declaratory Statutes
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Directory Statute
enjoins or forbids the doing of certain acts, is used in two different senses:- (I) As opposed to declaratory, i.e., a statute which merely declares what the Common Law is, 1 Bl. Com. 54 and 86. (II) … said to be imperative. See per Lord Mansfield in R. v. Loxdale, (1758) 1 Burr. 445; Maxwell on Statutes
Magna Carta
Great Charter is in fact a collection of statutes in thirty-seven chapters, which are for the most part declaratory of our ancient and cherished customs, supplying, however, many of the deficiencies of the Common Law. 'Codes are
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Declaratory and remedical Act
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Warranty
1893, specific rules are provided in respect of conditions and warranties. These rules are, in the main, merely declaratory of law which is applicable to many transactions other than sales: see REPRESENTATION; TRADE MARKS; LAND-LORD AND TENANT; … (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 63) and 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 31), and other Statutes. In marine insurance a 'warranty' means a condition: see Marine Insurance Act, 1906, ss. 33-41. Means an affirmation
Deprivation
taking away from a clergy-man his patronage, vicarage, or other spiritual promotion or dignity, either, first, by sentence declaratory in the proper Court for fit and sufficient causes; such as conviction of infamous crime; for heresy, gross … contrary to law, after two former convictions for the same offence; or, secondly, in pursuance of divers penal statutes, which declare the benefice void, for some nonfeasance or neglect, or else some malfeasance or crime, as for
damage
reparation for the loss or injury for which another is liable see also additur, cover, mitigate, remittitur compare declaratory judgment at judgment, injunction specific performance at performance NOTE: The trier of fact determines the amount of damages … for which the trier of fact finds the wrongdoer liable NOTE: Treble damages are recoverable where authorized by statute and are usually imposed as a punishment. 3 pl : losses for which damages are recoverable [did not
Partnership
business of the partnership where every partner may have access to them. The Act of 1890 is mainly declaratory. The chief amendment is that of the 23rd s., by which the judgment creditor of a partner, instead … in effect, transfers the law of the subject from the region of reported cases to that of the statute; Bovill's Act' (see that title) of 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 86), and a small part of
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