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Deposit
49. By s. 49(2), where the Court refuses to grant specific performance of a contract or in any action for the return of a deposit the Court may, if it thinks fit, order the repayment of any … recompense, and to be returned when the bailor shall require it. The appellation and the definition are both derived from the civil law. Depositum est quod custodiendum alicui datum est. It is, in the civil law, divisible
Court-leet
his patentor deed of appointment, or there exist an established custom for it. All fines are recoverable by action of debt or by distress. A fine is imposed by the court, but an amercement is generally the … euphoni' gratia), i.e., convenire, to assemble together, unde conventus, 4 Inst. 261. For other opinions as to the derivation of the word, see Lex Man. 131; Ritson on Courts-leet; and Scriv. On Copyholds.] This court is expressly
Sovereignty
Sovereignty is limited externally by the possibility of a general resistance. Internal sovereignty is paramount power over all action within, and is limited by the nature of the power itself, Union of India v. Sukumar Sengupta, AIR … of government and its administration; the self-sufficient source of political power from which all specific political powers are derived; the inter-national independence of a State combined with the right and power of regulating its internal affairs without
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Copyhold
of all these fines is not to exceed two years' value of the lands, which is recoverable by action of debt. See FINES IN COPYHOLDS. (12) Besides a fine a heriot is due to the lord on … it is not absolutely necessary that the lands should continue parcel of the manor. And because this tenure derives its whole force from custom, the lands must have been demisable by copy of court roll from time
Merger
same engagement is made by deed, the simple contract is merged and extinguished in the deed. If an action is brought and judgment recovered, the right of action is said to be merged in the judgment, see … so termed, is the destruction of a collateral thing in the subject itself out of which it is derived. 'In order that there may be a merger, the two estates which are supposed to coalesce must be
Consideration
whom it is made, and not the party for whose benefit it is made, who may maintain an action upon it. See Tweddle v. Atkinson, (1861) 1 B&S 393; Re Empress Engineering Co., (1880) 16 Ch D … the benefit of an obligation) from which the promisor (the person burdened with the obligation) or a stranger derives a benefit or advantage, or any labour detriment or inconvenience sustained or suffered by the promisee at the
Plaintiff
action against another, who is called defendant. It includes: (i) any person from or through whom a plaintiff derives his right to sue. [Limitation Act, 1963, s. 2 (i) (i)] (ii) any person whose estate is represented
Bracton
fair deduction, or corroborated by the authority of some adjudged case, so that the reader never fails in deriving instruction or amusement from the study of this scientific treatise on our ancient laws and customs. Bracton was … complete digest of the contents of this venerable code. The rules of property are explained; the proceedings in actions, through the minutest steps, are investigated and developed; while every proposition is supported by fair deduction, or corroborated
principal
or constituting principal or a principal [the amount of the loan] n 1 : a participant in an action or transaction esp. having control or authority [the s of a business]: as a : one who engages … him or her subject to his or her general control or instruction : one from whom an agent derives authority to act compare fiduciary b : one who commits a crime or instigates, encourages, or assists another
Photosynthesis
vapor and the carbon dioxide of the air in the chlorophyll containing tissues of plants exposed to the action of light It was formerly called assimilation but this is now commonly used as in animal physiology The … the latter forming various sugars through polymerization Vines suggests that the carbohydrates are secretion products of the chloroplasts derived from decomposition of previously formed proteids The food substances are usually quickly translocated those that accumulate being changed
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