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League of Nations (Societe des Nations)

charter, pledging these States to promote international co-operation, and achieve peace and security by accepting obligations not to go to war, and to respect treaties. Among the important principles which underlie the League are the 'collective system,'

Inquiry, writ of

return the inquisition into court. The writ is necessary after an interlocutory judgment, the defendant having let judgment go by default, to ascertain the quantum of damages. By (English) R.S.C.1883, Ord. XIII., r. 5, it is provided

Ire ad largum

Ire ad largum (to go at large; to escape; to be set at liberty).

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Issuable plea

Issuable plea, a plea on which a plaintiff may take issue, and go to trial upon the merits. See now STATEMENT OF DEFENCE.

Knot

Knot (nautical mile), a division of the log-line. So a ship going eight nautical miles in the hour is said to go eight knots. The nautical mile has been fixed

Knowledge

It is necessary..... to distinguish between producing a result intentionally and producing it knowingly. Intention and knowledge commonly go together, for he who intends a result usually knows that it will follow, and he who knows the

Labourer

vested in the justices of the peace the power of com-pelling persons not having any visible livelihood to go out to service in husbandry, or in certain specific trades, for the promotion of honest industry. A 'labourer'

Gang-week

Gang-week [fr. gangan, Sax., to go], the time when the bounds of the parish are lustrated or gone over by the parish officers-rogation week.

Dismissal and removal

Dismissal and removal, the dictionary meaning of the word 'dismiss' is 'to let go; to relieve from duty'. The word 'remove' means 'to discharge to get rid off, to dismiss'. In their

From any premises

phrase then reads 'or for the eviction of a tenant from any premises'. The words 'from any premises' go very clearly with the words 'eviction of a tenant' and not with the words 'any suit or proceeding',

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