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Home Dictionary Name: enen banc
en banc also in banc also in bank [in-bak, Ä -bÄ k] adv or adj [Anglo-French en banke, literally, on the bench] : with all judges or a quorum of judges present : in full court [an en banc rehearing] [heard very few matters en banc "H. B. Zobel"] ...
En ventre sa mere
En ventre sa mere. [Fr. In its mother's womb.] A child in the womb of the mother is for most purposes regarded in English law as being already born. But there are certain important exceptions. For example, if a child is killed whilst it is within the womb, it cannot be the subject of a murder or manslaughter charge, but otherwise if it receives injuries whilst in the womb which occasion its death after birth, R. v. Senior, (1832) 1 Moo CC 346. In civil matters also the fiction of birth is only to be applied if the maintenance of the fiction is for the child's benefit and not its detriment, Villar v. Gilbey, 1907 AC 139, but it has lately been held by the House of Lords that the doctrine does not apply where a benefit is not destined directly to the child and is only for his indirect benefit, if any: Elliot v. Joicey (Lord), 1935 AC 209, and see LQR, January, 136, for a note on the case. Subject to the narrowing of the doctrine by Elliot v. Joicey, ubi. Sup., a liberal interpretation wi...
Les Prelats, Seigneurs, et Communes en ce present Parlement assemblees, au nom de touts vos autres sujets, remercient tres humblement votre Majeste, et prient a Dieu vous donner en sante bonne vie et longue
Les Prelats, Seigneurs, et Communes en ce present Parlement assemblees, au nom de touts vos autres sujets, remercient tres humblement votre Majeste, et prient a Dieu vous donner en sante bonne vie et longue.-The prelates, lords, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, in the name of all your other subjects, most humbly thank your Majesty, and pray to God to grant you in health a good and long life.) The form of words used by the clerk in an act of grace or indemnity, which originates with the Crown, or, so to speak, has the royal assent before it is agreed to by the two Houses....
Commandite, Partnerships en
Commandite, Partnerships en, partnerships in France which are limited, where the contract is between one or more persons, who are general partners, and jointly and severally responsible, and one or more other persons, who merely furnish a particular fund or capital stock, and thence are called commanditaries or commenditaries, or partners en commandite.-'The salient features of that system in its simplest form are these: There is a managing partner, who manages the affairs of the partnership and is under unlimited liability to creditors, and there is a sleeping partner, who contributes, or agrees to contribute, capital of specified amount for the purposes of the partnership. His liability is limited to the amount of his capital, and he is not allowed to take part in the management of the business. Particulars are registered. Sometimes there are several managing partners and several sleeping partners.' See Pollock on Partnership, 9th Edn. P. 207; Code of Commerce of France, arts. 23, 24...
dation en paiement
dation en paiement in the civil law of Louisiana : a mode of discharging a debt by the debtor's giving to the creditor with the creditor's consent something that satisfies the debt but differs from the form of payment originally called for by the debt called also giving in payment ...
En
A prefix signifying in or into used in many English words chiefly those borrowed from the French Some English words are written indifferently with en or in For ease of pronunciation it is commonly changed to em before p b and m as in employ embody emmew It is sometimes used to give a causal force as in enable enfeeble to cause to be or to make able or feeble and sometimes merely gives an intensive force as in enchasten See In...
Apprentice en la ley
Apprentice en la ley, See last title....
Fastens or Fastern's E'en, or even
Fastens or Fastern's E'en, or even [fr. vastal-abend, low Sax.], Shrove-Tuesday, the succeeding day being Ash-Wednesday, the first of the Lenten fast....
Societe en commandite
Societe en commandite. See COMMANDITE....
habeas corpus
habeas corpus [Medieval Latin, literally, you should have the body (the opening words of the writ)] : any of several writs originating at common law that are issued to bring a party before the court ;esp : habeas corpus ad subjiciendum in this entry [the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it "U.S. Constitution art. I"] habeas corpus ad fa·ci·en·dum et re·ci·pi·en·dum [-ad-fa-sē-en-dəm-et-ri-si-pē-en-dəm, -fa-shē-en-; -Ä d-fÄ -kē-en-dm-et-rā-kē-pē-en-dm] [New Latin, literally, you should have the body for doing and receiving] : habeas corpus cum causa in this entry habeas corpus ad pro·se·quen·dum [-ad-prÄ -si-kwen-dəm, -Ä d-prō-sā-kwen-dm] [New Latin, literally, you should have the body for prosecuting] : a writ for removing a prisoner for trial i...
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