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registered or otherwise protected under the (English) Land Registration Act, 1925. See s. 60 of that Act, but double registration under the (English) Land Charges Act, 1925, is not necessary. S. 10(5) provides that registration of a … Debenture [fr. debeo, Lat., to owe] may be defined generally as a charge in writing [not necessarily sealed, see British India, etc., Co. v. Commissioners of Inland Revenue, (1881) 7 QBD

verdict

a mistrial because of a hopeless deadlock only on a lesser included offense; such a verdict would prevent double jeopardy on the higher charge. quo·tient verdict [kwō-shənt-] : a usually impermissible verdict that is based on a

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Single entry

Single entry, an entry made to charge or to credit an individual or thing, as distinguished from double entry, which is an entry of both the debit and credit accounts of a transaction. See DOUBLE ENTRY.

duplicity

duplicity pl: -ties [Late Latin duplicitat- duplicitas duality, double-dealing, from Latin duplex twofold] 1 : the use of deceptive words or actions 2 : the use of … more than one claim, allegation, or defense in a single paragraph of a pleading ;esp : the improper charging of more than one offense in one count in a charging instrument (as an indictment) compare misjoinder, multiplicity

Adultery

case it may be called single adultery to distinguish it from the other, which has sometimes been called double. By the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857, which created a Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (superseding the … or bigamy, or of his incestuous adultery, provided there be no collusion or connivance, and that the alleged charges have not been condoned. The Matrimonial Causes Act, 1923, gave a wife the right to divorce a husband

Distress

(English) 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 … make rules from time to time for regulating the security to be required from bailiffs, and the fees, charges, and expenses of distress, and also for carrying into effect the objects of the (English) Act of 1888,

Possibility on a possibility

that the event on which a remainder is to depend must be a common possibility, and not a double possibility, or a possibility on a possibility, which the law will not allow. Thus he tells us that … to the person who conveys the letters to the houses where he takes up and lays down his charge, and to the stages or distances between house and house. Hence the phrases, 'post-boy,' 'post-horse,' 'post-house,' etc. Contract

multiplicity

"W. R. LaFave and J. H. Israel"] compare duplicity, misjoinder NOTE: Multiplicity raises the risk of violating the double jeopardy protection against receiving multiple sentences for a single offense. Multiplicity is a defect that can be corrected … being multiple or various b : the charging of a single criminal act or offense as multiple separate charges or counts of an indictment or information [ does not require dismissal of the indictment "W. R. LaFave

Perpetuity

Closely connected with the rule against perpetuities was another and independent rule, commonly known as the rule against double possibilities, or the rule in Whitby v. Mitchell, (1890) 44 Ch D 85, viz., that after an estate

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