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Under-lease

of the superior lease. But the terms upon which the relief will be granted are in the absolute discretion of the Court, and in certain cases the rent may be raised. See Ewart v. Fryer, (1910) 1

exercisable at the request or with the consent of any person and with or without a power at discretion to postpone the sale, but in its general legal sense the term is not restricted to that meaning.

Trust

and not imperative. If it appear from the context that the first taker ws intended to have a discretionary power to withdraw the whole or any part of the subject from the objects of the wish or

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Trial

Provisions) Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, 36), s. 6, trial by jury is entirely at the discretion of the Court or judge, and see R.S.C. Ord. XXXVI., rr. 2-6; also Keeling v. Cook, (1934) 78

Tolls under statute

maintenance of a bridge, the power to revise the amount of the tolls may be in the undertakers' discretion or the tolls may only be subject to requirement that they are to be reasonable in amount, Halsbury's

To be at his own disposal

thereof may be retained by the executor for such objects and such purpose as he may, in his discretion, select and be at his own disposal. It means as if the said profits are to be as

Title to lands, Documents of

of title to lands, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for the term of three years; or to be

Supreme Court of Judicature

Chancery practice of leaving costs (which at Common Law 'followed the event' of an action largely in the discretion of the judge was adopted for all the branches of the High Court. The (English) Act of 1875

In mercy

In mercy, means at a judge's discretion concerning punishment. A judgment formerly noted which litigant lost by stating that the unsuccessful party was in the

Shall presume

Shall presume, denotes that the court would pre-sume in that event, no discretion has been left with the court and there is a legislative command to it to raise a presumption

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