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abstention

abstention : the staying of the exercise of federal jurisdiction in a case that involves a question of state law...

Status - capacity

Status - capacity, the fundamental difference bet-ween status and capacity is that the former is a legal State of being...

Undertake any operation in the land

Undertake any operation in the land, the words used in the s. are 'to undertake any operations in the land'...

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Right

Right [fr. recht, Teut.; rectus, Lat. The application of the same word to denote a staight line and moral rectitude...

Delivery of a Deed

Delivery of a Deed, a requisite to a good deed. The delivery may be effected either by acts or by...

Criminal contempt

Criminal contempt, any act done or writing published which is calculated to bring a Court or a Judge into contempt,...

Jus in personam

Jus in personam, a right which gives its possessor a power to oblige another person to give or procure, to...

Possession

Possession, correctly understood, means effective physical control or occupation. The word 'possession' is sometimes used inaccurately as synonymous with the...

Piracy

Piracy [fr. pirata, Lat.], the commission of those acts of robbery and violence upon the sea, which if committed upon...

Persecution

Persecution, implies a failure by the State to make protection available against the ill-treatment or violence which the person suffers...

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