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Public meeting

section, he may if requested so to do by the chairman of the meeting, require that person to declare to him immediately his name and address and, if that person refuses or fails so to declare his

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...

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...

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Bar, plea in

merely tending to divert the proceedings to another jurisdiction, or suspend them, or abate the particular writ or declaration. It was, in short, a substantial and conclusive answer to the action. It followed from this property, that,

Appointment of new trustees

additional trustees. S. 40 provides for the vesting of the trust property in the new trustees by a declaration in the deed of appointment or, deeds of appointment executed after 1925, no express vesting declaration appears, by

Discovery

Discovery, revealing or disclosing matter. The Courts of Common Law were originally unable to compel a litigant to disclose any fact resting merely within his knowledge, or discover any document in his power, which would aid...

testimony

Federal Rule of Evidence 804, former testimony is admissible as an exception to the hearsay rule when the declarant is unavailable and if a predecessor in interest in a civil proceeding or the party against whom the

Jurat

Jurat, the statement at the foot of an affidavit of the names of the parties swearing it, and of the officer before whom it is sworn, of the date, and of any other necessary particulars, as...

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

Nov' narrationes

collection called Nov' Narrationes contains pleadings in actions during the reign of Edward III. It consists principally of declarations, as the title imports; but there are sometimes pleas and subsequent pleadings. The Articuli ad Novas Narrationes is

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