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Quacksalver

One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves or of the efficacy of his prescriptions a charlatan a quack a mountebank

Specific performance

Specific performance. Equity, in obedience to the cardinal rule of natural justice that a person should perform his agreement enforces, pursuant to a regulated and judicial discretion, the actual accomplishment of a thing stipulated for, on...

Om

Om, the expression 'Om' is respected by the Hindus generally and has a special significance in the Hindu scriptures. It is recited at the commence-ment of the recitations of Hindu religious works. Macdonell in his 'A...

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Nullity

Nullity, want of force or efficacy; an error in litigation which is incurable, and thus differs from an irregularity, which is amendable. A decree is said to be a nullity if it is passed by a...

Judge

Judge [fr. juge, Fr.; judex, Lat.], one invested with authority to determine any cause or question in a Court of judicature. The word 'judge' denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a judge...

Homeopathic medicines

Homeopathic medicines, includes any drug which is recorded in Homoeopathic proving or therapeutic efficacy of which has been established through long clinical experience as recorded in authoritative Homeopathic literature of India and abroad and which is...

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum (that you have the body to answer). This, the most celebrated prerogative writ in the English law, is a remedy for a person deprived of his liberty. It is addressed to him...

Forgery, fraud

Forgery, fraud, Forgery has its origin in the French word 'Forger', which signifies 'to frame or fashion a thing as the smith doth his work upon the anvil. And it is used in our law for...

Act of Parliament

Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an...

force and effect

force and effect : legal efficacy [have the force and effect of a formal acceptance "Louisiana Civil Code"]

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