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Borough Funds Acts
to apply public funds under their control to promoting or opposing bills in Parliament or to prosecute or defend legal proceedings in the interest of their constituents, but will not allow of their indemnifying the chief constable
Contest
oppose, 'resist or dispute; to strive to win or hold: to controvert, litigate, call in question, challenge to defend. The contest continues right up to the final decision or, in other words the right to contest comes
Consent-rule
Consent-rule, a superseded instrument, in which a defendant in an action of ejectment specified for what purpose he intended to defend, and undertook to confess not
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Civil proceeding
determinative and having regard of the penalty which might be imposed; that the claimants were therefore entitled, to defend themselves through publicly funded legal Assistance; and that the justices had therefore erred in law in deciding that
Charging order
5, c. 37), s. 69, enables any court in which a solicitor has been employed to prosecute or defend a suit to make a charging order in favour of the solicitor of the successful party for his
Champion of the King (or Queen)
challenge, 'that if any man shall deny the King's title to the crown, he is there ready to defend it in single combat.' The king drank to hi, and sent him a gilt cup covered, full of
Capacity
Dictionary, 7th Edn. Capacity, is being used in the sense of legal competence or status to bring or defend a claim, Haq v. Singh , (2001) 1 WLR 1594 (CA).
Appearance
a person is served with a summoning process from a Court he generally comes into such Court to defend himself by entering an appearance with the proper officer. Appearance to actions in the High Court of Justice
Defence
Defence [fr. defensio, Lat.], popularly a justification, protection, or guard; in law, a denial by the defendant of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's complaint. In Civil matters, a defence (which is always in
Ancient demesne
were made subject to certain restraints and entitled to certain immunities. They were forbidden to bring or to defend any real action, touching their tenements, except in the lord's Court. in ancient demesne there are no subdivided
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