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Specific performance

kind of property. (5) Where a suit is brought for the execution of a verbal agreement fully set forth in the plaintiff's claim, and the defendant puts in his answer or defence thereto, and confesses the agreement.

Statute

Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1420. Statute, is a law passed by a legislative body and set forth in a formal document, Webster American Dictionary, p. 1425. Statute, is synonymous with Act of Parliament, Stroud's Judicial

Team, or Theame

Team, or Theame [fr. tyman, Sax., to teem or bring forth], a privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, for the having, restraining, and judging

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Term sheet

Term sheet, means a document setting forth all information that is material to investors about the offering but is not disclosed in the accompanying prospectus

Uniformity, Act of

(the feast of St. Bartholomew) following (see Lane's Notes on English Church History). After a long preamble setting forth the preparation of the Prayer Book by several Bishops and other Divines appointed by the King, its approval

Warning of a Caveat

person who has entered a caveat in the Probate branch of the High Court to appear and set forth his interest. Consult Tristram and Coote's Probate Practice. See CAVEAT.

Narrow seas

between two coasts not far apart. The term is sometimes applied to the English Channel. The Firth of Forth is also 'narrow waters' as far as collision regulations are concerned, Screw Collier Co. v. Kerr, 1910 AC

Monster

the brute creation, has no inheritable blood, and cannot be heir to any land, although it be brought forth in marriage; but, though it have deformity in any part of its body, yet, if it have human

Disbursements

he has actually had to pay out to other people, such as witnesses, counsel, professional advisers and so forth, Agassi v. Robinson (No. 2) (CA), (2006) 1 WLR 2126.

Heresy

PC 357, in which the Rev. Charles Voysey was deprived of his benefice for contradicting many doctrines set forth in the Thirty-nine Articles (see that title). See also APOSTASY; H'RETICO COMBURENDO, DE. Consult Odgers on Libel, 5th

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