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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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