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Home Dictionary Name: defence Page: 2 Page 2 of about 221 results ( seconds)Dock defence
Dock defence. A dock defence is said tohave been accepted by a barrister when he is instructed direct by the defendant in the precincts of the Court without the intervention of a solicitor. The fee of one guinea (or 1l. 3s. 6d.) must be paid then and there....
Defence Acts
Defence Acts. These Acts, 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 94), 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 112), 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 89), and 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 72), allow compulsory purchases by government of land required for defence of the country, as for erection of fortifications, etc., and see next title....
Defence Estate Officer
Defence Estate Officer, means the officer appointed by the Central Government to perform the duties of the Defence Estates Officer for the purpose of this Act and the rules made thereunder. [Cantonments Act, 1924, s. 2 (xia)]...
Civil defence volunteer
Civil defence volunteer, in realtion to any injury, means a person certified, by an officer of an civil defence organisation authorised by the Central Government to grant such certificate, to have been a member of that organisation at the time when the injury was sustained [Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act, (59 of 1962), s. 2(2)]...
Civil defence
Civil defence, includes any measures, not amounting to actual combat, for affording protection to any person, property, place or thing in India or any part of the territory thereof against any hostile attack, whether from air, land, sea or other places, or, for depriving any such attack of the whole or part of its effect, whether such measures are taken before, during, at or after the time of such attack. [Civil Defence Act, 1968 (27 of 1968), s. 2 (a)]...
Defence (Flood)
Defence (Flood), means the drainage of land the provision of flood warring systems, s. 136(8) of Water Act, 1989, s. 136(8) (UK), Halsbury's Laws of England 1(2), para 557, p. 299....
Febce-month, or defence-month
Febce-month, or defence-month, a time during which female deer in forests do fawn; when hunting them is unlawful. It begins fifteen days before Old Midsummer, and ends fifteen days after it, Manw., pt. 2, c. xiii....
Striking-out defence
Striking-out defence. this may now be done as a punishment for default in making discovery or allowing inspection after an order to do so. See R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XXXI., r. 21....
Costs
Costs, expenses incurred in litigation or professional transactions, consisting of money paid for stamps, etc., to the officers of the Court, or to the counsel and solicitors, for their fees, etc.Costs in actions are either between solicitor and client, being what are payable in every case to the solicitor by his client, whether he ultimately succeed or not; or between party and party, being those only which are allowed in some particular cases to the party succeeding against his adversary, and these are either interlocutory, given on various motions and proceedings in the course of the suit or action, or final, allowed when the matter is determined.Neither party was entitled to costs at Common Law, but the Statute of Gloucester (6 Edw. 1, c. 4), gave cots to a successful plaintiff, and 2 & 3 Hen. 8, c. 6, and 4 Jac. 1, c. 3, to a victorious defendant; see Garnett v. Bradley, (1878) 3 App Cas 944.In proceedings between the Crown and a subject the general rule is that the Crown neither ...
Libel
Libel [fr. libellus, Lat.; libelle, Fr.]. False defamatory words, if written and published, constitute a libel: Odgers on libel, p. 1. 'Everything printed or written, which reflects on the character of another, and is published without lawful justification or excuse, is a libel whatever the intention may have been', O'Brien v. Clement, (1846) 15 M & W 435, per Parke, B. A statement in a talking film is a libel and not merely a slander, Yossopoff v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture Corporation, 78 Sol Jo 617. As to publication by dictation, etc., to a typist, see Osborn v. Boulter & Son, (1930) 2 KB 226. All contumelious matter that tends to degrade a man in the opinion of his neighbours, or to make him ridiculous, will amount (when conveyed in writing, or by picture, effigy, or the like, Monson v. Tussauds, Ltd., (1894)1 QB 671, to libel. A writing of fictitious character which incidentally contains the name of a real person may be a libel: see Jones v. Hulton & Co., 1910 AC 20, where Lord ...
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