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Illegal, incorrect or irregular decree and void decree
jurisdiction is a nullity. Validity of such decree or order can be challenged at any stage, even in execution or collateral proceedings. All irregular or wrong decrees or orders are not necessarily null and void. An erroneous
Infant
such as contracts for the public service, Articles of apprenticeship [see Green v. Thompson, (1899) 2 QB 1], executed contracts of marriage, representative acts as executor or trustee, contracts for necessaries. In an action brought for the
Interpleader
or amongst themselves only. Where the applicant is a sheriff, and claim is made to goods seized in execution by any other than the person against whom the execution issued, the process is called a 'sheriff's interpleader.'
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Jury of matrons
(1) upon a writ de ventre inspiciendo, which see; (2) where a female prisoner is condemned to be executed, and pleads pregnancy as a ground to postpone the completion of the sentence until after her confinement. Upon
Justifiable homicide
killing of a human creature without incurring any legal guilt. It is of various kinds:- (1) The due execution of public justice, inputting a malefactor to death who has forfeited his life by the laws of his
Land-waiter
to examine, taste, weigh, or measure it, and to take an account thereof. In some ports they also execute the office of a coast-waiter. They are likewise occasionally styled searchers, and are to attend and join with
Lunatic
doing and proves the allegation, the contract is as binding on him in every respect, whether it is executory or executed, as if he had been sane when he made it, unless he can prove further that
computer program
a sequence of instructions stored in any medium that can be interpreted and executed by a computer called most frequently a program This term is used both for the written program a
Making a false document
false document, A person is said to make a false document-who dishonestly or fraudulently makes, signs, seals or executes a document with the intention of causing it to be believed that such document was made, signed or
Mandavi ballivo
Mandavi ballivo (I have commanded the bailiff). If a bailiff of a liberty have the execution and return of a writ, the sheriff may return that he commanded the bailiff to execute it; and
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