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Double charge

To load with a double charge as of gunpowder

Registration Act, 1925. See s. 60 of that Act, but double registration under the (English) Land Charges Act, 1925, is not … debeo, Lat., to owe] may be defined generally as a charge in writing [not necessarily sealed, see British India, etc., Co.

verdict

on a lesser included offense; such a verdict would prevent double jeopardy on the higher charge. quo·tient verdict [kwō-shənt-] : a

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Single entry

or to credit an individual or thing, as distinguished from double entry, which is an entry of both the debit and … Single entry, an entry made to charge or to credit an individual or thing, as distinguished from

Distress

sale only after written notice of the distress, and gives double damages against any person distraining and selling if no rent … the security to be required from bailiffs, and the fees, charges, and expenses of distress, and also for carrying into effect

Possibility on a possibility

to depend must be a common possibility, and not a double possibility, or a possibility on a possibility, which the law … the houses where he takes up and lays down his charge, and to the stages or distances between house and house.

duplicity

duplicity pl: -ties [Late Latin duplicitat- duplicitas duality, double-dealing, from Latin duplex twofold] 1 : the use of deceptive … a single paragraph of a pleading ;esp : the improper charging of more than one offense in one count in a

multiplicity

duplicity, misjoinder NOTE: Multiplicity raises the risk of violating the double jeopardy protection against receiving multiple sentences for a single offense. … of a single criminal act or offense as multiple separate charges or counts of an indictment or information [ does not

Damage

civil damages, compensatory damages, consequential damages, contingent damages, continuing damages, double damages, excessive damages, exemplary damages, general damages, irreparable damages, pecuniary … by negligent stowage, or, by the misconduct of those in charge of the ship, like when cargo is disposed of contrary

Adultery

distinguish it from the other, which has sometimes been called double. By the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857, which created a … there be no collusion or connivance, and that the alleged charges have not been condoned. The Matrimonial Causes Act, 1923, gave

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