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Precedent
decisions of another co-ordinate court on a point of practice. The same rules prevailed in the Courts of Equity. The Divisions of the High Court being parts of one and the same court, each Division ordinarily considers
Natural justice
Natural justice, the aim of the rules of natural justice is to secure justice or to put it negatively to prevent miscarriage of justice. These rules can operate only in areas not covered by any law...
Supplemental Bill
Supplemental Bill, an addition to an original bill in equity, in order to supply some defect in its frame and structure. See BILL INCHANCERY and STATEMENT OF CLAIM.
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Sales tax
Sales tax, there is no equity about a tax in the sense that a provision by which a tax is imposed has to be
Satisfaction
or provision previously secured to the legatee upon marriage or otherwise, then, from the already quoted inclination of equity against double portions, a presumption arises that the legacy was intended by the testator as a complete satisfaction.
Scandal
pleadings will not be open to the objection of scandal, if the facts justify the charge, Manual of Equity Pleading and Practice, Eugene A. Jones, 1916, p. 50.
Shared household
either the aggrieved person or the respondent or both jointly or singly have any right, title, interest or equity and includes such a household which may belong to the joint family of which the respondent is a
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to give to that person an interest in fee-simple or an entailed interest, such words shall operate in equity as words of purchase and not of limitation, and shall be construed and have effect accordingly, and in
Speaking demurrer
Speaking demurrer, one in which new facts, which did not appear upon the face of a bill in equity, were introduced to support a demurrer. See 1 Dan. Ch. Pr., 5th Edn. 538. See now DEMURRER.
Sponsor
particularly a godfather in baptism. Means any person holding not less than ten per cent of the paid-up equity capital of a securitisation company or reconstruction company. [Securitisa-tion and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcements of Security
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