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Cat
Cat. (1) A cat is not the subject of larceny at Common Law: for the punishment for stealing a cat, see (English) Larceny Act, 1861, s. 21; for maliciously killing or wounding, see (English) Malicious Damage...
Balance decree
Balance decree, word decree after the word 'balance' means entitlement to a further sum, N.K. Rajagarhia v. Mahavir Plantation Ltd., (2006) 1 SCC 502. --Includes the amount waived at the trial stage, N.K. Rajagarhia v. Mahavir...
Coparceners or parceners
Coparceners or parceners. The name given to persons who until 1926 inherited an inheritable estate by virtue of descents from the ancestor which conferred on them all an equal title to it. It arose by act...
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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,...
Arrest
Arrest [fr. restae, Lat.; arrestare, It.; arrester, Fr., to bring one to stand], the restraining of the liberty of a man's person in order to compel obedience to the order of a Court of Justice, or...
Arches, Court of
Arches, Court of [fr. curia de arcubus, Lat.], a court of appeal belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the judge of which is called the Dean of the Arches, because his Court was anciently held in...
Archbishop
Archbishop [fr. apxletlokotos, Gk., fr. apxwv, chief, and emokotos, bishop], the chief of the clergy in his province; he has supreme power under the king in all ecclesiastical causes, and superintends the conduct of other bishops,...
Apportionment
Apportionment, a division of a whole into parts (usually unequal) proportioned to the rights of more claimants than one. It is either (1) Apportionment in respect of time, or (2) Apportionment in respect of estate. Apportionment...
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...
Casual pauper
Casual pauper (obsolete term). Any destitute wayfarer or wanderer applying for or receiving relief. See (English) Pauper Inmates Discharge and Regulation Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c.108), and (English) Casual Poor Act, 1882 (45 &...
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