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disorienting

causing disorientation causing confusion of directions … causing disorientation causing confusion of directions

Incline

To cause to deviate from a line position or direction to give a leaning bend or slope to as incline the column or post to the east incline

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Send

To cause to go in any manner to dispatch to commission or direct to go as to send a messenger

Counterwheel

To cause to wheel or turn in an opposite direction

or ordinance, e.g., Assize of Clarendon; also a jury, who sit together for the purpose of trying a cause, or rather a Court of jurisdiction which summons jury by a commission of assize to take the assizes. … usually assigned to every circuit. See CIRCUITS. The judges have four several commissions: (1) of oyer and terminer, directed to them and many other gentlemen of the county, by which they are empowered to try treasons, felonies,

Judgment

proceeding. Before such an order can be a judgment the adverse effect on the party concerned must be direct and immediate rather than indirect or remote. For instance, where the Trial Judge in a suit under Order … 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

cause

Matched in: Term cause

writ

previous one alternative writ : a writ commanding one to perform a mandated act or else to show cause why the act need not be performed compare peremptory writ in this entry extraordinary writ : a writ … name of the sovereign or of a court or judicial officer commanding the person to whom it is directed to perform or refrain from performing a specified act NOTE: The writ was a vital official instrument in

Contempt of court

or dignity of a Court, which has power to punish for such offence by committal. Contempts are either direct, which only insult or resist the powers of the Court, or the persons of the judges who preside … properly, i.e., either of the parties or his representative. Among the latter is the attempting by intimidation to cause any suitor to discontinue his action, kidnapping or corrupting witnesses or attempting to do so, corrupting or attempting

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