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Cy-pres
in substance. If the mode should become by subsequent circumstances impossible, the general rule is not to be defeated, if it can in any other way be obtained. Where there are no objects remaining to take the
Common
Wm. 4, c. 71), s. 1, enacts that after thirty years' enjoyment a right of common cannot be defeated by merely showing it commenced within time of memory, and after sixty years' enjoyment the right shall be
Cabinet
to be prepared to take up the responsibility of forming a government if the government resigns or is defeated. His task though not so difficult as that of the Prime Minister is of sufficiently great public importance
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Bar, plea in
Bar, plea in, a pleading showing some ground for barring or defeating an action at Common Law. A plea in bar was therefore distinguished from all pleas of the dilatory
Parties
on behalf of or for the benefit of all parties so interested. 'No cause or matter shall be defeated by reason of the misjoinder or non-joinder of parties, and the court may in every cause or matter
Advowson
are rather suspensions than severances. A disappendancy created by a wrongful act may be done away with by defeating such act; and should it be effected by operation of law, the appendancy will be preserved, unless otherwise
Notice
otherwise, no man would be safe in any purchase, but would be liable to have his own title defeated by secret equities, of which he could have no possible means of making a discovery, Le Neve v.
Shall
design and the context in which it is enacted. If the object of a law is to be defeated by noncompliance with it, it has to be regarded as mandatory. But when a provision of law relates
Plea
two classes of pleas was that the dilatory showed some ground for quashing the declaration, the peremptory for defeating the action. Consult Bullen and Leake, or Odgers on Pleading, and Ch. Arch. Practice. In equity, a plea
Presumptive heir
who, if the ancestor should die immediately, would be his heir: but whose right of inheritance may be defeated by the contingency of some nearer heir being born.
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