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multiplicity
multiplicity pl: -ties 1 a : the quality or state of 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 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 without dismissal of the case. 2 : a great number [joinder is allowed to avoid a of actions] ...
Unclaimed property
Unclaimed property. This devolves on the Crown at Common Law. Unclaimed property may be dealt with under the heads of (1) Government Stock, (2) Chancery Funds, (3) Stock in Public Companies, (4) Bankers' Balances, (5) Deposits with Bankers for Safe Custody, and (6) Found Property.(1) Government Stock.-The National Debt Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 71), ss. 51 et seq., as extended by 20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 28, s. 49 provides that stock on which no dividend has been claimed for ten years must be transferred to the National Debt Commissioners. Lists of names in which the stock stood, with residence, description and amount of stock and date of transfer, are to be kept at the Bank of England [or Ireland, but see 13 Geo. 5, c. 2, s. 6 (d)] and at the National Debt Office, open to inspection, and also kept in duplicate at the National Debt Office. The stock may be re-transferred to persons showing title after, in the case of stock exceeding 20l., three months' public notice by advertisement. A sec...
duplicate
Double twofold...
Salary
Salary, a recompense or consideration generally periodically made to a person for his service in another person's business; also wages, stipend, or annual allowance. See RECEIPT.An agreed compensation for services esp. pro-fessional or some professional services usu. paid at regular intervals on yearly basis, as distinguished from an hourly basis, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1337.The ancients derive the word from sal, salt (Plin. H.N. xxxi. 42)--the most necessary thing to support human life being thus mentioned as a representative of all others.The word 'salary' as used in clause (h) of s. 60 is meant to be confined to the emoluments of labourers and domestic servants. It makes a distinction between salary and the wages of labourers and domestic servants, Raghunandan Sahai v. Jaigobind Sahay, AIR 1942 Pat 194.The word 'salary' as used in proviso (1) to s. 60, Civil Procedure Code must be construed as meaning the total monthly emoluments to which a public servant is entitled, ...
Plate
Plate, of gold and silver. The duties were repealed by the (English) Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1890, s. 10. The hall-marking of foreign plate is prescribed by ss. 59, 60 of the (English) Customs Act, 1842, as amended by the Hall-marking of Foreign Plate Act, 1904 (4 Edw. 7, c. 6), which directs that foreign plate when brought to be assayed and stamped, as it has to be by revenue law, must be marked so as to distinguish it as foreign, and that every person bringing it to an assay office, unless it be in charge of a revenue officer, must state in writing whether it was bought in England, Scotland, or Ireland, or was imported from foreign parts. Watch-cases imported from foreign parts before 1st June, 1907, are exempted from assay by the Assay of Imported Watch-Cases (Existing Stocks Exemption) Act, 1907. As to the meaning of 'plate' in ss. 2, 6 of the Plate (Offences) Act, 1738, and other statutes, see Faberge v. Goldsmiths' Co., (1911) 1 Ch 286. Gold watches which are jewelled and...
Maxim
Maxim [fr. maximum Lat.], an axiom; a general principle; a leading truth so called, says Coke, quia maxima est ejus dignitas et certissima auctoritas, atque quod maxime omnibus probetur, 1 Inst. 11.Modern opinion, however, does not rate maxims so highly, and Lord Esher, M.R., in Yarmouth v. France, (1887) 19 QBD 653, in connection with Volenti non fit injuria, went so far as to say that they are almost in variably misleading, and for the most part so large and general in their language that they always include something which really is not intended to be included in them. Similarly, the late Mr. Justice Stephen (Hist. Crim. Law, 94) wrote:-'They are rather minims than maxims, for they give not a particularly great, but a particularly small, amount of information. As often as not the exceptions and qualifications are more important than the so-called rules'--which, while they mostly bad abstracts of it. A contrary view, however, is given in a lecture by Mr. H.F. Manistry, K.C., on 'The ...
Lost Bill of Exchange, Cheque, or Promissory Note
Lost Bill of Exchange, Cheque, or Promissory Note. The (English) Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, s. 69, replacing the repealed 9 & 10 Wm. 3, c. 17, s. 3, enacts that if a bill of exchange, or cheque, or note, be lost before it is overdue, 'the person who was the holder of it may apply to the drawer to give him another bill (or cheque, or note) of the same tenor, giving security to the drawer, if required, to indemnify him against all persons whatever in case the bill (or cheque, or note) alleged to have been lost shall be found again'; and that 'if the drawer on request as aforesaid refuses to give such duplicate bill (or cheque, or note), he may be compelled to do so.' By s. 70 of the same Act, re-enacting 17 & 18 Vict. c. 125, s. 87, 'in any action or proceeding on' a bill (or cheque, or note), the Court may order that the loss of the instrument shall not be set up, provided an indemnity be given to the satisfaction of the Court against the claims of any other person upon the instrument...
Estreat
Estreat, (1) the true extract, copy, or note of some original writing or record, and especially of recognizances, fines, amercements, etc., entered on the rolls of a Court to be levied by the bailiff or other officer, Fitz. N.B. 57; also (2) to forfeit. See RECOGNIZANCE.A copy or duplicate of some original writing or record, esp. of a fine or amendment imposed by a court, extracted from record, and certified to one who is authorised and required to collect it, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 572....
Mesolabe
An instrument of the ancients for finding two mean proportionals between two given lines required in solving the problem of the duplication of the cube...
Gemination
A doubling duplication repetition...
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