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Consideration

is not within the limits of human capacity. Lex neminem cogit ad vana aut impossibilia; see ILLEGALITY. (c) Executed consideration, i.e., already performed before the making of the defendant's promise, but if the past or executed consideration

Deed

(English) Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 5, enacts that under an indenture executed after the 1st October, 1845, an immediate estate or interest in any tenements or hereditaments, and the benefit

Domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium

justified in killing another who breaks into his house to rob or murder him; and a sheriff to execute process may not break an outer door [see per Lord Ellenborough, C.J., in Burdett v. Abbott, (1811) 14

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Pianissimo

Very soft a direction to execute a passage as softly as possible Abbrev pp

Perform

To carry through to bring to completion to achieve to accomplish to execute to do

Enforce

Dictionary) see also Hameed Joharan v. Abdul Salam, (2001) 7 SCC 573. In general, to cause to be executed or performed, to cause to take effect, or to compel obedience to, as to enforce laws or rules;

procedendo

procedendum, gerund of procedere to proceed] : an extraordinary writ ordering a lower court to proceed to or execute a judgment

agent

by another in some action [where the heads of departments are the political…s of the executive, merely to execute the will of the president "Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)"] see also innocent agent 3 a

do

do did done do·ing does vt 1 : perform execute 2 : commit [did this act of cruelty] verbal auxiliary used with the infinitive without to to form

executor

executor : a person named by a testator to execute or carry out the instructions in a will compare administrator

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