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Forced labour
force exerted through a legal provision such as a provision for imprisonment or fine in case the employee fails to provide labour or service or it may even be compulsion arising from hunger and poverty, want and
Forfeiture of shares
and see Articles 23 to 29 of Table A., which enable directors to forfeit shares of a member failing to pay calls or instalments or any other sum payable in respect of a share, see Hopkinson v.
Fugitation
to the Crown. A sentence or declaration of fugitive status that was pronounced against an accused person for failing to answer a citation and appear, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 680.
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Inquiry, writ of
the quantum of damages. By (English) R.S.C.1883, Ord. XIII., r. 5, it is provided that where the defendant fails to appear and the plaintiff's claim is for detention of goods and damages, or either of them, interlocutory
Impossibility
has deteriorated, has been destroyed, or is no longer available, (2) the method of delivery or payment has failed, (3) a law now prevents performance, or (4) death or illness prevents performance, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.,
Goodwill
it was nonetheless difficultto divine. In a progressing business goodwill tends to show progressive increase. And in a failing business it may begin to wane., its value may fluctuate from one moment to another depending on changes
Husband and wife
Where husband and wife are living apart owing to the former's desertion, or by consent, and the husband fails to maintain her, she has an irrevocable authority, as an agent of necessity, to pledge his credit for
Ignoratio elenchi
of the conclusion to be proved. An advocate's misunderstanding of an opponent's position, manifested by an argument that fails to address the opponent's point; the overlooking of an opponent's counter argument, Black's Law Dic-tionary, 7th Edn., p.
Intoxicating liquor
suitable refreshment (other than intoxicating liquor) at a reasonable price,' or because 'the holder of the licence has failed to fulfil any reasonable undertaking given to the justices on the grant or renewal of the licence', see
In pari delicto potior est conditio possidentis
a suit, not to maintain one. Thus, in Taylor v. Chester, (1869) LR 4 QB 309, the plaintiff failed to recover the half of a 50l. note deposited with the defendant as a security for a debt
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