Encroach - Law Dictionary Search Results
Separation of powers
government viz., legislative, executive and judicial, each with specified duties on which neither of the other branches can encroach; the constitutional doctrine of checks and balances by which the people are protected against tyranny, Black's Law Dictionary,
Block-busting
by inducing property owners to sell hastily and often at a loss by appeals to fears of nority encroachment and then reselling at inflated prices, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 53.
Prohibition
cognizance thereof belongs not to such Court. It is a remedy provided by the Common Law against the encroachment of jurisdiction. The writ issued not only out of the King's Bench, but also out of the Courts
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Pourpresture or purpresture
(3) against a neighbour-2 Inst. 38. Purpresture within a forest was where any man made any manner of encroachment upon the forest either by building or inclosure or by using of any liberty or privilege without lawful
Pith and substance-doctrine of
Constitution upon the legislature which enacted it, it cannot be held to be invalid, merely because it incidentally encroaches on matters assigned to another legislature. When a law is impugned as being ultra vires of the legislative
Pith and substance
28. Pith and substance, once a law 'in pith and substance' falls within a legislative entry, an incidental encroachment on an entry in another list does not affect its validity, Gallagher v. Lynn., (1937) AC 863 (PC).
Perambulatione facienda
Perambulatione facienda, a writ which lay where any encroachments had been made by a neighbour-ing lord, etc., to the sheriff to perambulate or settle the bounds. See
Magna Carta
alarm and excitement by the struggles of the barons' war, but at length this constitutional barrier against regal encroachments was finally secured to the people by its solemn confirmation by Edward I. No fewer than thirty-two Acts
Copyholders
Copyholders, are in truth no other but villains who, by a long series of immemorial encroachments on the lord, have at last established a customary right to those estates which before were held absolutely
Chivalry, Court of
matters touching deeds of arms or war, as well as pleas of life or member. It also corrected encroachments in matters of coat-armour, precedency, and other distinctions of families. It has long grown entirely out of use.
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