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Colorado beetle
tit. 'Agriculture') prohibiting or regulating the landing of potatoes, etc., likely to introduce it, and giving powers to destroy crops on which it may be found, and compensation to persons whose crops may be destroyed accordingly.
Benigne faciend' sunt interpretationes, propter simplicitatem laicorum, ut res magis valeat quam pereat; et verba intentioni non ' contra debent inservire
written instruments. The judges will rather apply the words of a document to fulfil its lawful intent, than destroy such intent because of insufficient language, for to the intention, when once discovered, all technical forms of expression
Confusion
a debt, in the French law, by the concurrence in the same person of two qualities which mutually destroy one another. This may occur in several ways, as where the creditor becomes the heir of the debtor,
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Holder
recover the amount due thereon from the parties thereto. Where the note, bill or cheque is lost or destroyed, its holder is the person so entitled at the time of such loss or destruction. [Negotiable Instruments Act,
Iddat
according to the Mohammedan law. Even during this period the relations between her and her husband are not destroyed; and she will be entitled to maintenance by him. According to the texts, the time of iddat or
Immediate control
conduct a warrantless search of this area to ensure the officer's safety and to prevent the arrestee from destroying evidence, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 751.
In omni re nascitur res qua ipsam rem exterminat
In omni re nascitur res qua ipsam rem exterminat [Lat.], in everything is born that which destroys the things itself.
Institutions
or per lapsum temporis. Such entries should be carefully preserved, for the letters of institute on may be destroyed or lost, and the patron's title may suffer from want of evidence upon whose presentation institution was given
Jura sanguinis nullo jure civili dirimi possunt
Jura sanguinis nullo jure civili dirimi possunt [Lat.], rights of blood cannot be destroyed by any civil right.
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
of set-off (9 Geo. 4, c. 14, s. 3). In regard to land, the right to it is destroyed after the statutory period and neither re-entry nor acknowledgment after the lapse of the statutory period will revive
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