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Uses
Thus a novel contrivance, which was at first a liberating expedient, became a gigantic system, which superseded the doctrines and practice of feudal law, and laid the foundation of modern conveyancing. Before the Statute of Uses, a … by the Common Law judges of the meaning of this celebrated statute. Requirements of the Statute: There are several circumstances necessary to the execution of uses under the statute, viz.:- (1) A person seised to the use.
Blasphemy
the crime of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God or a religion and its doctrines and writings and esp. God as perceived by Christianity and Christian doctrines and writings. In many States blasphemy … apostasy, but is cumulative upon the common law, R. v. Carlile, (1819) 3 B. & Ald. 167, very severely punishes any person 'who shall by writing printing teaching or advised speaking, deny the Christian religion to be
Equity
Common Law, but rather guides itself by its analogies, and does not assume any power to subvert its doctrines. This is amply shown by two well-known maxims of the Court of Chancery, viz., 'quitas sequitur legem, and … distinct from Law 'Equity' is an equivocal term; the difficulty lies in drawing the dividing lines between the several senses in which it is used. They may be distinguished thus:- (1) Taken broadly and philosophically, Equity means
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Judge
same efficacy as judgments pronounced and Acts done by a judge de jure. Such is the de facto doctrine, born of necessity and public policy to prevent needless confusion and endless mischief, Gokaraju Rangaraju v. State of … Canal Co., (1852) 3 HLC 759; but this incapacity, where it arises from an interest as one of several rate payers only, is abolished by the Jurisdiction in Rating Act,1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 11), and
Master and servant
of common employment in the case of negligence by a fellow-servant who occupied a position of superintendence. The doctrine of common employment applies to claims based on the negligence of a fellow-servant in the provision or maintenance … and labour are not sufficient to carry out his own business or purpose. See LABOURERS. Servants are of several descriptions:- 1st Servants in husbandry. These are very generally hired by the year, as from Michaelmas to Michaelmas,
Company
the democratic world including United State of America, United Kingdom and India. That was the time when the doctrine of laissez-faire held sway and it dominated the political and economic scene. This doctrine glorified the concept of … months after with less than seven members, each member having knowledge of the reduction below the minimum becomes severally liable for the whole of the debts contracted during the period of reduction. In the case of private
jurisdiction
the territory (as a state) of that court. primary jurisdiction : the jurisdiction granted by a judicially created doctrine to an administrative agency to decide certain controversies initially before relief is sought in the courts compare exhaustion … NOTE: Ancillary jurisdiction allows a single court to decide an entire case instead of dividing the claims among several courts and proceedings, and allows a federal court to decide a claim that would otherwise be properly brought
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