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Person of unsound mind
'Lunatics.' Under the present practice a person who has become more or less of unsound mind is not generally so found, nor is a committee appointed; the usual course is to obtain the appointment of a 'receiver,' … private certifiable patients and rate-aided certifiable patients. Voluntary and temporary patients will be admitted or received into the charge of institutions, hospitals, licensed houses, nursing homes, or single care as provided by the Acts, without being certified;
Indictment
Cent. 205.--(Indictment for felony is against the peace of our lord the king, his Crown and dignity in general, and not against his individual person; because in England there is no interregnum.)
Promoter
Promoter, a term anciently sometimes applied to a common informer generally (see 5 Inst. 191), but in modern times applied only to the prosecutor of an ecclesiastical suit, as
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Recovery
Recovery, the obtaining a thing by judgment or trial. The regaining or restoration of something lost or taken away, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1280. A true recovery is an actual or real recovery of...
Magna Carta
King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three … efficacious process, because thesaurus regis est pacis vinculum et bellorum nervi (the public revenue is at once the security of peace and the sinews of war). The 9th chapter perpetuates our right of self-government, the source and
Hereditaments
to realty and personality, yet it is in a different mode of relation. When applied to realty it generally denotes the subject of property, apart from its nature and extent; but when applied to personality, it does
Negligence
L. 61. The question of negligence may be one entirely of law, where the case falls within a general settled rule or principle of law; more often, of law and fact and sometimes of fact only where
Debt
recovery of a liquidated or certain sum of money affirmed to be due to him; and it was generally founded on some contract alleged to have taken place between the parties, or on some matter of fact
Mortgage
(English) Real Estate Charges Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 69), provides that in construing wills a general direction to pay debts out of personalty shall not include mortgage debts, unless an intention to that effect … interest and expenses, at any period within twelve (formerly twenty) years after the last recognition of the mortgage security by the mortgagee; and this because equity deems the non-compliance with the proviso for redemption a penalty, against
Cruelty
coercing her or any person related to her to meet any unlawful demand for any property or valuable security would also constitute cruelty, Shobha Rani v. Modhukar Reddi, (1988) 1 SCC 105: AIR 1988 SC 121 (124).
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