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Trespass

Trespass [fr. transgressio, Lat.], any transgression of the law, less than treason, felony, or misprision of either.An unlawful act committed against the person or property of another esp. wrongful entry on another's real property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.The action of trespass lies where a trespass has been committed either to the plaintiff's person or property. A trespass is an injury committed with violence, and this violence may be either actual or implied; and the law will imply violence, though none is actually used, where the injury is of a direct and immediate kind, and committed on the person or tangible and corporeal property of the plaintiff. Of actual violence an assault and battery is an instance; of implied, a peaceable but wrongful enter upon the plaintiff's lands, Steph. Plead., 7th Edn., 11, 37, 154. As to trespass on the case, see CASE and VI ET ARMIS.Trespass, as an unlawful act committed against a person and property of another, Black's Law Dictionary (7th E...

Magna Carta

Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...

Judgment

Judgment [fr. judgment, Fr.], judicial determination; decision of a Court.Under the former practice of the superior Courts, this term was usually applied only to the Common Law Courts, the term 'decree' being in general use in the Court of Chancery. The expression 'Judg-ment,' however, is now used generally except in matrimonial causes, the term 'judgment' including 'decree' [(English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 225, replacing Jud. Act,1873, s. 100].The several species of judgments are either:-(a) Interlocutory, given in the course of a cause, upon some plea, proceeding, or default, which is only intermediate, and does not finally determine or complete the action. See INQUIRY; SUMMONSES; and ORDERS; and the various titles of the subjects of such judgments as MANDAMUS; INJUNC-TION, etc.(b) Final, putting an end to the action by an award of redress to one party, or discharge of the other, as the case may be.By the (English) C.L.P. Act,1852, s. 120, a plaintiff or defendant having obtained a verd...

Appearance

Appearance, means a coming into court as a party or interested person, or as a lawyer on behalf of a party or interested person, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 95.An appearance may be expressly made by formal written or oral declaration, or record entry, or it may be implied from some act done with the intention of appearing and submitting to the court's jurisdiction. 4 Am. Jur. 2d Appearance 1, at 620 (1995).Means physical appearance and not appearance through advocate, State of West Bengal v. Pranab Ranjan Roy, (1998) 3 SCC 209. [Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, ss. 167(5)(ii), 436 & 437]The word appearance is capable of having different connotations, when it is employed in different contexts. For instance where the summons or the notice issued to a party, at the initial stage, in civil proceedings, requires his appearance, it can certainly be through a recognized agent or counsel, as provided for under sub-rule (1) of Rule 1 of Order III of Civil Procedure Code. However, where the...

Alias

Alias (otherwise), a second or further writ, which was issued after a first writ had expired without effect. Abolished by the (English) Common Law Procedure Act, 1852, s. 10. As to concurrent writs, see R. S. C. Ord. VI., rr. 1, 1a, 2 and 2a...

Summons

Summons [fr. the writ called summoneas--Pegge's Anecd. Of the Eng. Lang., 2nd Edn. 173], a call of authority, admonition to appear in court, a citation.1. To commence Action in High Court, By R.S.C. Ord. II., r. 1(see Annual Practice):-Every action in the High Court shall be commenced by a writ of summons, which shall be indorsed with a statement of the nature of the claim made, or of the relief or remedy required in the action, and which shall specify the Division of the High Court to which it is intended that the action should be assigned.See also SUMMARY JUDGMENT.2. To Judges' or Masters' Chambers.--The means by which one party brings the other before a judge (or a master) to settle matters of detail in the procedure of a suit; as, for directions; to modify pleadings when inconvenient, to require security for costs, to change the venue, etc. There is an appeal from the decision of a master to the judge, and from the judge's decision to the Court of Appeal.3. To Court of Summary Juri...

Ad melius inquirendum

Ad melius inquirendum. A writ directed to a coroner commanding him to hold a second inquest. See Reg. v. Carter, (1876) 45 LJ QB 711, in which the defendant coroner was directed on a second view, by exhumation, of the body, to hold a second inquest (two months after the first), in a case of death by poison, and (English) Coroners Act,1887, s. 6, sub-s. 1, by which the High Court may direct another inquest where necessary or desirable by reason of fraud, rejection of evidence, irregularity of proceedings, etc., sub-s. (3) dispensing with the necessity, 'unless the Court otherwise order,' of a view of the body. See also (English) Coroners (Amendment) Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 59), s. 19....

warrant

warrant [Anglo-French warant garant protector, guarantor, authority, authorization, of Germanic origin] 1 : warranty [an implied of fitness] 2 : a commission or document giving authority to do something: as a : an order from one person (as an official) to another to pay public funds to a designated person b : a writ issued esp. by a judicial official (as a magistrate) authorizing an officer (as a sheriff) to perform a specified act required for the administration of justice [a of arrest] [by of commitment] administrative warrant : a warrant (as for an administrative search) issued by a judge upon application of an administrative agency anticipatory search warrant : a search warrant that is issued on the basis of an affidavit showing probable cause that there will be certain evidence at a specific location at a future time called also anticipatory warrant arrest warrant : a warrant issued to a law enforcement officer ordering the officer to arrest and bring the person named i...

Melius inquirendum, ad

Melius inquirendum, ad, a writ for a second inquiry, where partial dealing was suspected; and particularly of what lands or tenements a man died seised, on finding an office for the king, Fitz. N.B. 255. For instance of a second inquiry before a coroner, see Reg. v. Carter (1876) 45 LJQB 711; and for express legalization of such inquiry, see (English) Coroners Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 71), s. 6....

Recaption

Recaption, the taking a second distress of one formerly distrained, during the plea grounded on the former distress; and it was a writ to recover damages for him whose goods, being distrained for rent, or service, etc., were distrained again for the same cause, pending the plea in the County Court or before the justices, Fitz. N.B. 71.It is also a species of remedy by the mere act of the party injured. This happens when anyone has deprived another of his property, in goods or chattels personal, or wrongfully detains one's wife, child, or servant, in which case the owner of the goods, and the husband, parent, or master, may lawfully claim and retake them, wherever he happens to find them, so it be not in a riotous manner, or attended with a breach of the peace, 3 Bl. Com. 4.At common law, lawful seizure of another's pro-perty for a second time to secure the performance of a duty, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1274....

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