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Specific performance
52 of the (English) Sale of Goods Act, 1893. An award of damages may be combined with a decree for specific performance by s. 24 of the (English) Judicature Act, 1873. (see now Judicature Act, 1925, s.
Tenant
continuing in possession after the termination of his tenancy but shall not include any person against whom any decree or order for eviction had been made by a court of competent jurisdiction, A.C. Estates v. Serajuddin and
Nullity
efficacy; an error in litigation which is incurable, and thus differs from an irregularity, which is amendable. A decree is said to be a nullity if it is passed by a court having no inherent jurisdiction. Merely
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For
the Court-Fees Act. Evidently the expression 'for' when it occurs for the first time means 'for obtaining a decree ordering (payment or recovery for). A decree for declaration of title to money or other property is not
Debt
being in force, in cash or otherwise, whether secured or unsecured, or assigned, or whether payable under a decree or order of any civil court or any arbitration award or otherwise or under a mortgage and subsisting
Enrollment
Central Office, see R.S.C., Ord. LXI. If a party to a suit in Equity, who had obtained a decree or order, was desirous of preventing a rehearing of the cause before the judge pronouncing the same, or
Cause of action
prove such facts, but every fact necessary for the plaintiff to prove to enable him to obtain a decree. Everything which if not proved would give the defendant a right to immediate judgment must be part of
Executor
before he pays any other creditor in equal degree, and he may retain his own debt notwithstanding a decree has been made for administration of the estate and notwithstanding the assets out of which he seeks to
Judicial separation
granted either to husband or wife on the ground of adultery, cruelty, rape, sodomy, bestiality, non-compliance with a decree for restitution of conjugal rights, or desertion without cause for two years and upwards [(English) Judicature Act, 1925,
Restitution
'restitution' in its etymological sense means restoring to a party on the modification, variation or reversal of a decree what has been lost to him in execution of the decree or in direct consequence of the decree.
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