Skip to content

Direct Action - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

rule

guide for conduct or action b : a regulating principle or precept 2 a : an order or directive issued by a court in a particular proceeding esp. upon petition of a party to the proceeding that

Criminal conversation

and rules as were formerly applicable to the trial of actions for criminal conversation, and the Court may direct that they be settled for the benefit of the children of the marriage or as a provision for … Criminal conversation, adultery. See ADULTERY. The action for this (called crim. Con.) was nominally abolished by the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (20 & 21

Moral

virtue and vice are predicated or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed relating to the practice manners or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other as … Relating to duty or obligation pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong virtue and vice are predicated or to the rules by which such intentions

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Capias

Capias (that you take). The writ of capias (which was a writ directing the sheriff to take the body of the defendant), as a means of commencing an action at Common

Inferior Courts (UK)

is not to apply against persons domiciled in any of the countries respectively, unless the whole cause of action arose, and the summons was personally served upon the defendant within the district of the inferior Court in

Letter rogatory

of a witness residing within the jurisdiction of that foreign Court may be formally taken thereon under its direction and transmitted to the issuing Court making such request for use in a pending legal contest or action,

Nov' narrationes

treats of actions and courts, then goes through each particular writ, and the declaration upon it, accompanied with directions, and illustrated by precedents, 3 Reeves, c. xvi., 152. … Nov' narrationes (new counts). The collection called Nov' Narrationes contains pleadings in actions during the reign of Edward III. It consists principally of declarations, as the title imports; but there are

Practice

[Competition Act, 2002 (92 of 2003), s. 2(m)] The form and manner of conducting and carrying on suits, actions, or prosecutions at law or in equity, civil or criminal, through their various stages, from the commencement to

Bill of middlesex

Bill of middlesex, a fictitious mode of giving the Court of King's Bench jurisdiction in personal actions, by arresting a defendant for a supposed trespass. The 2 Wm. 4, c. 39, abolished this fiction, and

Electrolyze

To decompose by the direct action of electricity

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


Direct Action - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

rule

guide for conduct or action b : a regulating principle or precept 2 a : an order or directive issued by a court in a particular proceeding esp. upon petition of a party to the proceeding that

Criminal conversation

and rules as were formerly applicable to the trial of actions for criminal conversation, and the Court may direct that they be settled for the benefit of the children of the marriage or as a provision for … Criminal conversation, adultery. See ADULTERY. The action for this (called crim. Con.) was nominally abolished by the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (20 & 21

Moral

virtue and vice are predicated or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed relating to the practice manners or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other as … Relating to duty or obligation pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong virtue and vice are predicated or to the rules by which such intentions

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Capias

Capias (that you take). The writ of capias (which was a writ directing the sheriff to take the body of the defendant), as a means of commencing an action at Common

Inferior Courts (UK)

is not to apply against persons domiciled in any of the countries respectively, unless the whole cause of action arose, and the summons was personally served upon the defendant within the district of the inferior Court in

Letter rogatory

of a witness residing within the jurisdiction of that foreign Court may be formally taken thereon under its direction and transmitted to the issuing Court making such request for use in a pending legal contest or action,

Nov' narrationes

treats of actions and courts, then goes through each particular writ, and the declaration upon it, accompanied with directions, and illustrated by precedents, 3 Reeves, c. xvi., 152. … Nov' narrationes (new counts). The collection called Nov' Narrationes contains pleadings in actions during the reign of Edward III. It consists principally of declarations, as the title imports; but there are

Practice

[Competition Act, 2002 (92 of 2003), s. 2(m)] The form and manner of conducting and carrying on suits, actions, or prosecutions at law or in equity, civil or criminal, through their various stages, from the commencement to

Bill of middlesex

Bill of middlesex, a fictitious mode of giving the Court of King's Bench jurisdiction in personal actions, by arresting a defendant for a supposed trespass. The 2 Wm. 4, c. 39, abolished this fiction, and

Electrolyze

To decompose by the direct action of electricity

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial