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Legitimate expectation

can sustain the change in policy by resort to wednesbury principles of rationality or whether the court can go into the question whether the decision-maker has properly balanced the legitimate expectation as against the need for a

Liberty of the Rules

Liberty of the Rules, a privilege to go out of the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons within certain limits and there reside. Abolished by 5 & 6

Goodwill

Goodwill, may be the whole advantage belonging to the firm, its reputation as also connection thereof. It, thus, means

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Gretna green marriage

banns (or a licence) necessary in England, it became usual for persons who wished to marry clandestinely to go to Gretna Green, the nearest part of Scotland, and marry according to the Scotch law; so a sort

Gypsies

persons calling themselves Egyptians, using no craft or feat or merchandise, who have come into this realm and go from shire to shire and place to place in great company, and use great, subtle, and crafty means

Heat of passion

did not impose a heavier penalty than the indeterminate sentence imposed by the trial judge and did not go beyond the sentence of the court. Indeed it is the comprehensiveness of the original sentence which is stressed

Heirloom

Heirloom [fr. h'res, Lat., heir, and geloma, Sax., goods], personal chattels, such as charters, deeds, and evidences of title, coat armor set up in a church, or

Hereditaments

or issuing out of, land. It includes money held in trust to be laid out in land [Re Gosselin, (1906) 1 Ch 120]. Any property that can be inherited; anything that passes by intestacy, Black's Law Dictionary,

Imprisonment

so restrained is said to be a prisoner, so long as he has not his liberty freely to go about his business as at other times, Co. Litt. 253. See FALSE IMPRISONMENT. Imprisonment for Crime.--Any common law

Import

the customs barrier but it is not complete in a real sense. Even the warehouse to which the goods are permitted to be removed under s. 59 of the Customs Act is a premises under the lock

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