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aid : to provide with what is useful in achieving an end [conspiracy to counsel or draft resisters "K. A. Cohen"] often used in the phrase aid and abet; see also abet vi : to be of use [aided in the commission of the crime] aid·er n n 1 : an act of aiding [render to the principal] 2 : help given ;esp : tangible means of assistance (as money or supplies) [ to the disabled] [giving and comfort to the enemy] ...
Aid of the King
Aid of the King [auxilium regis, Lat.], the king's tenant prays this, when rent is demanded of him by others. A city or borough, holding a fee-farm from the king, if anything be demanded which belongs to such fee-farm, may pray, in 'aid of the king,' and the king's bailiffs, collectors, or accountants shall have aid of the king. The proceedings are then stayed until the Crown counsel are heard, but this aid will not be granted after issue, because the Crown cannot rely upon the defence made by another, Termes de la Ley...
Aid
Aid, the word 'aid' postulates the continued existence of the authority to be aided, Naga Peoplis Movement of Human Rights v. Union of India, AIR 1998 SC 431 (463): (1998) 2 SCC 109. (Constitution of India, Sch 7, List 1, Entry 2A and List 2, Entry 1)...
Procedendo on aid prayer
Procedendo on aid prayer. If one pray in aid of the Crown in real action, and aid be granted, it shall be awarded that he sue to the sovereign in Chancery, and the justices in the Common Pleas shall stay until this writ of procedendo de loquel' come to them. So also on a personal action, New N.B. 154....
legal aid
legal aid : aid provided by an organization established to serve the legal needs of the poor ...
legal aid society
legal aid society : an organization providing government-funded legal aid to the poor ...
Aid prayer
Aid prayer, formerly made use of in pleading for a petition in Court, praying in aid of the tenant for life, etc., from the reversioner or remainderman, when the title to the inheritance was in question. It was a plea in suspension of the action, Com. Dig. 'Abide,' B. 5....
Aids
Aids [fr. aides, Fr.; auxlia, Lat.], originally mere benevolences granted by a tenant to his lord in times of distress, but at length the lords claimed them as of right. They were principally three: (1) To ransom the lord's person, if taken prisoner; (2) To make the lord's eldest son and heir apparent a knight; (3) To give a suitable portion to the lord's eldest daughter on her marriage. Abolished by 12 Car. 2, c. 24. Also extraordinary grants to the Crown by the House of Commons, and which were the origin of the modern system of taxation, 2 Bl. Com. 63, 64....
External aids
External aids, the dictionary meaning of a word cannot be looked at where that word has been statutorily defined or judicially interpreted but where there is no such definition or interpretation, the court may take the aid of dictionaries to ascertain the meaning of a word in common parlance. In doing so the court must bear in mind that a word is used in different senses according to its context and a dictionary gives all the meanings of a word and the court would, therefore, have to select the particular meaning which would be relevant to the context in which it has to interpret that word, State of Orissa v. Titaghur Paper Mills Company Limited, (1985) Supp SCC 280: AIR 1985 SC 1293: (1985) 3 SCR 26....
In aid of the civil power
In aid of the civil power, The expression 'in aid of the civil power' in Entry 2A of List I and in Entry 1 of List II implies that deployment of the armed forces of the Union shall be for the purpose of enabling the civil power in the State to deal with the situation affecting maintenance of public order which has necessitated the deployment of the armed forces in the State, Naga People's Movement of Human Rights v. Union of India, AIR 1998 SC 431 (463): (1998) 2 SCC 109. (Constitution of India, Schedule 7, List I, Entry 2A and List 2 Entry I)...
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