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Libel

by picture, effigy, or the like, Monson v. Tussauds, Ltd., (1894)1 QB 671, to libel. A writing of fictitious character which incidentally contains the name of a real person may be a libel: see Jones v. Hulton

Consent-rule

action of ejectment specified for what purpose he intended to defend, and undertook to confess not only the fictitious lease, entry, and ouster, but that he was in possession.

Mancipatio

his natural father being in the first instance the vendor. The vendee was called pater fiduciarius. After this fictitious bargain, the pater fiduciarius sold him again to his natural father, who could then, but not till then,

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Payee

payees, or to the holder of an office for the time being; but where the payee is a fictitious or non-existing person, it may be treated as payable to bearer, Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, s. 7;

Presetment of Bill of Exchange, Cheque, or Pro-missory Note

bill be duly presented for payment, or presentment for payment be dispensed with by the drawee being a fictitious person, or by waiver or impracticability of presentment, the drawer and indorsers are discharged. 'Where the bill is

Roe, Richard

Roe, Richard, otherwise Troublesome, the casual ejector and fictitious defendant in ejectment, whose services are no longer invoked. See JOHN DOE, and EJECTMENT.

Tail

an estate-tail were two: viz., a fine, according to the statute law (which was a compromise of a fictitious action), giving a base fee commensurate with the existence of the issue upon whom the estate-tail would (if

Trover

by the defendant, but it was in course of time allowed to be brought as above upon a fictitious allegation of the finding not required to be proved, but not formally abolished until 1852, by the C.L.P.

Deforciant

Deforciant, the person against whom the fictitious action of fine was brought. Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74.

Fictional

Pertaining to or characterized by fiction fictitious romantic

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