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Falsification

c. 35), s. 24 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Conveyancing'), and the falsifier is also liable to an action for damages by the same enactment. The fiat of the Attorney-General is required before comm-encing a prosecution. [(English) L.P. Act, … of accounts, Re Arton, (1896) 1 QB 509; R. v. Palin, (1906) 1 KB 7. 4. Falsification by Director or other Officer of a Company.--The (English) Companies Act, 1929, by s. 272 makes this a misdemeanour on

Distress

by a magistrate or justices, and also enables (s. 6) a 'superior landlord' to require payment of rent direct to himself whenever the immediate tenant is in arrear. See Shenstone v. Freeman, (1910) 2 KB 84; and … Act of William and Marry allows the sale only after written notice of the distress, and gives double damages against any person distraining and selling if no rent is due. The same Act also requires appraisement before

Bail

judge at chambers or before a justice of the peace, in such an amount as the judge may direct. If unsuccessful the applicant can apply to another judge or renew his application to the Divisional Court, but … a defendant, that if he should be condemned in the action, he should satisfy the debt costs and damages, or render himself to prison, or that they would do it for him. Since the abolition of arrest

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Jurisdiction

hear and determine a cause, and such tribunal cannot exist except by authority of law. Jurisdiction always emanates directly and immediately from the law; it is a power which nobody on whom the law has not conferred … originally seems to have had the meaning which Lord Reid ascribed to it in Anisminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission, (1969) 2 AC 147, namely, the entitlement 'to enter upon the enquiry in question, M.L. Sethi v.

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