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Dismissal and removal

relieve from duty'. The word 'remove' means 'to discharge to get rid off, to dismiss'. In their ordinary parlance, the said

Deer-leap, or deer's-leap

could leap down into his park and be unable to get back again-in fact, a species of deer-trap. See Notes and

Crown Solicitor

solicitors attached to each circuit, whose duty it was to get up every case for the Crown in criminal prosecutions. They

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Court of competent jurisdiction

try the offence or offences. Such a Court will not get denuded of its competence to try the case on account

Cost-book mining companies

to his name. In a cost-book partnership, a shareholder may get id of his shares, and with them his liabilities, so

Copia libelli deliberanda

deliberanda, a writ that lay where a man could not get a copy of a libel at the hands of a

Conversion and detinue

unlawfully or negligently loses or parts with possession he cannot get rid of his contractual liability to restore the bailor's property

Mala fide exercise of power

Mala fide exercise of power, a right to get rid of the obstruction then and there by binding down

Common informer

evidence on criminal trials for no other reason than to get the penalty or a share of it; for a recent

Census

(3 & 4 Vict. c. 99), was the first to get at the name, etc., of every person in every house.

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