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Appeal, Court of (U.K.)
Appeal, Court of (U.K.), this Court, which was constituted under the Judicature Act, 1873, the Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876, and the Judicature Act,1881, has, by Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, s. 26, vested in it the appellate...
Appeal
Appeal [fr. appellatio, Lat.; appeller, Fr.]. the judicial examination of the decision by a higher Court of the decision of an inferior Court. Thus there is an appeal from the High Court to the Court of...
Animals
Animals may be divided into-- (1) Domestic animals, such as dogs, horses, cows, etc., sometimes called animals mansuet' natur'. See White v. Fox, 48 TLR 641. (2) Animals that are naturally dangerous, i.e., wild beasts, such...
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Aller san jour
Aller san jour, to go without day, i.e., to be finally dismissed from the Court because there is no further day assigned for appearance
Assisa cadere
Assisa cadere, to be nonsuited, as when there is such a plain and legal insufficiency in an action that the plaintiff cannot successfully proceed any further in it, Fleta, lib. 4, c. 15; Bracton, lib. 2,...
Cheque
Cheque, defined. [Act (1 of 1879), s. 3; [Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (26 of 1881), s. 6: A 'cheque' is a bill of exchange drawn on a specified banker and not expressed to be payable otherwise...
Alimony
Alimony [fr. alimonia. Lat.], the allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate for her support, either during a matrimonial suit or at its termination, when she proves herself entitled to a separate maintenance,...
Alien enemy
Alien enemy, a subject of a nation which is at war with this country. A contract with him is void, Brandon v. Nesbitt, (1794) 6 TR 23, unless he have a safe conduct or be living...
Alien
Alien [fr. alienigena, alibi natus, Lat.], a person not born within His Majesty's dominions and allegiance (q.v.). See definitions in the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1933, infra. At common law aliens...
Alias
Alias (otherwise), a second or further writ, which was issued after a first writ had expired without effect. Abolished by the (English) Common Law Procedure Act, 1852, s. 10. As to concurrent writs, see R. S....
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