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In personam
or in rem; actions at law in personam are those which seek recovery of damages, etc. so in equity the court acts in personam; thus it will make a decree against a defendant provided he is within
Incorporated Law Society
'The Society of Attorneys, Solicitors, Proctors, and others not being Barristers practicing in the Courts of Law and Equity of the United Kingdom'; since the charter of 1903 it has been officially (as before them commonly) called
Expectant heir
in 1854 by 17 & 18 Vict. c. 90. See USURY. From very early times, however, Courts of Equity have been accustomed to interfere between lender and borrower in these cases, and to set aside as 'unconscionable
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Institutions
treats of the Succession to Intestates, to which the cognati, or female side, were admitted by the Pr'torian equity, according to the degree of cognation. The Title, in conclusion, treats of those who were excluded from this
Law
question of fact in English Courts. See FOREIGN LAW. It (English) is also sometimes used as opposed to equity, meaning the principles followed in Common Law Courts in contradistinction to those which were administered only in courts
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
s. 12, expressly saves the operation of the statutes and general law affecting the limitation of actions. In equity, the rule has been, that, although the statute 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, s. 3, and other Acts
Multiplicity
Multiplicity. A bill in equity might have been objectionable for an undue dividing or splitting up of a single cause of suit, and
Pawn or Pledge
and if the goods be not redeemed at the stipulated time, the title becomes absolute at law although equity allows a redemption. But in a pledge, a special property only passes to the pledgee, the general property
Perpetuating testimony
being old, or infirm, or going abroad before the matter to which it relates can be judicially investigated, equity will, by anticipation, preserve and per-petuate such evidence in order to prevent a failure of justice; and by
Practice
2(m)] The form and manner of conducting and carrying on suits, actions, or prosecutions at law or in equity, civil or criminal, through their various stages, from the commencement to final judgment and execution, according to principles
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