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Assault
law (Offences against Person),' and notes. In criminal law means, an attempt to commit battery, requiring the specific intent to cause physical injury, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 109. … fine. As to 'aggravated' assault on a boy under 14 or any woman, see AGGRAVATED ASSAULTS, and see generally Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Criminal law (Offences against Person),' and notes. In criminal law means, an attempt to commit
title
a doctrine that requires such vesting compare estoppel by deed at estoppel NOTE: The doctrine of after-acquired title generally does not apply when the grantor receives title by quitclaim deed; to vest title in the grantee the … title by quitclaim deed; to vest title in the grantee the deed must include words expressing such an intention. clear title : title that exists free of claims or encumbrances on the property [had clear title to
Domicile
establish a domicile in a place except it be animo et facto. From these considerations and rules the general conclusion may be deduced, that domicile is of three sorts: domicile by birth, domicile by choice, and domicile … his true fixed permanent home and principal establishment, and to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of returning (animus revertendi). Two things, then, must concur to constitute domicile: first, residence; and secondly, the intention
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Shelley's case, Rule in
connected with the quantity of estate which a tenant may hold in realty, is the antique feudal doctrine generally known as the rule in Shelley's Case, which is reported by Lord Coke in 1 Rep. 93 b … rule is of positive institution at variance with rules of construction; for while the latter seek for the intention of parties, and strive for its accomplishment, the former combats the intention--a conflict which frequently raises immense difficulties
Act of Bankruptcy
or of any part thereof. (c) Having made a conveyance amounting to a 'fradulent preference.' (d) Having, with intent to defeat or delay his creditors, departed out of England, or being out of England, remained out of … is an act of bankruptcy:- (a) Having made an assignment of his property in trust for his creditors generally. (b) Having made a fradulent conveyance, gift, delivery, or transfer of his property, or of any part thereof.
Covenant
to whom it is made the covenantee. A covenant being part of a deed is subject to the general rules for the construction of such instruents; as, first, to be always taken most strongly against the covenanter … strongly against the covenanter and most in favour of the covenantee; secondly, to be taken according to the intent of the parties; thirdly, to be construed ut res magis valeat quam pereat; fourthy, when no time is
Bad faith
Bad faith, is the opposite of good faith, generally implying or involving, but not limited so, actual or constructive fraud, or a design to mislead or deceive … mislead or deceive another, or any other sinister motive. Conceptually bad faith can be understood as a 'dishonest intention', Harrison v. Telon Valley Trading Co. Ltd., (2004) 1 WLR 2577. Bad faith, is more appropriate to a
Falsification
s. 183] 2. Official Documents.--Making any material altera-tion in any official document or in any copy thereof, with intent to defraud or deceive, is felony punishable by penal servitude up to seven years by s. 3(3) of … 3(3) of the (English) Forgery Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27); and see the Act generally. 3. Books or Accounts by Clerks.--The (English) Falsification of Accounts Act, 1875 (37 & 39 Vict. c. 24),
Wills
wholly repealed by s. 2 of the Wills Act, 1837, which does not extend to Scotland, where, as generally in Europe, except in England and Ireland, a man cannot deprive his wife and children of a reasonable … the statute of Distributions; by the nineteenth s., that no will shall be revoked by presumption of an intention on the ground of alteration in circumstances; by the twentieth s., 'that no will or codicil shall be
Universal agent
rerum the complete disposer of all the rights and property of the principal. The law will not from general expressions, however broad, infer the existence of any such universal agency; but it will rather construe them as … them as restrained by the principal business of the party in respect to which it is presumed his intention to delegate the authority was principally directed, Story's Agency, 18.
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