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Arrest of judgment, Formerly an unsuccessful defendant might move that the judgment for the plaintiff be arrested or withheld, notwithstanding a verdict given, on the ground that there was some substantial error appearing on the face of the record which vitiated the proceedings. (See now R.S.C. Ords. XXVII. And XXXIX.) Judgment may be arrested for good cause in criminal cases, if the indictment be insufficient. See Archbold's Criminal Pleading.Means the staying of judgment after its entry, especially, a court's refusal to render or enforce a judgment because of a defect apparent from the record. At Common Law, courts have the power to arrest judgment for intrinsic causes appearing on the record, as when the verdict differs materially from the pleading or when the case alleged in the pleadings is legally insufficient. Today, that type of defect must typically be objected to before trial or before judgment is entered, so that the motion in arrest of judgment has been largely superseded, ...
In forma pauperis
In forma pauperis (in the character of a pauper). Every poor person, having cause of action, was entitled by 11 Hen. 7, c. 12, which is in affirmance of the Common Law, to have writs according to the nature of the case, without paying the fees thereon, and the judges might assign him counsel and solicitor, who acted gratis. This discretionary indulgence was confined to plaintiffs at Common Law, but was extended by Courts of (English) Equity to defendants.The statute 11 Hen. 7, c. 12, is repealed by the Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act, 1883, but its provisions and those of the Chancery Orders and Common Law Rules (which gave effect to it in somewhat different terms) are thrown into one code by (English) R.S.C., Ord. XVI., rr. 22-31 G., by which a person may be admitted to sue or defend as a poor person on proof that he has a reasonable cause of action or defence and that his means do not exceed 50l. his clothes, household goods, tools of trade, and the subject-matter of the...
Costs
Costs, expenses incurred in litigation or professional transactions, consisting of money paid for stamps, etc., to the officers of the Court, or to the counsel and solicitors, for their fees, etc.Costs in actions are either between solicitor and client, being what are payable in every case to the solicitor by his client, whether he ultimately succeed or not; or between party and party, being those only which are allowed in some particular cases to the party succeeding against his adversary, and these are either interlocutory, given on various motions and proceedings in the course of the suit or action, or final, allowed when the matter is determined.Neither party was entitled to costs at Common Law, but the Statute of Gloucester (6 Edw. 1, c. 4), gave cots to a successful plaintiff, and 2 & 3 Hen. 8, c. 6, and 4 Jac. 1, c. 3, to a victorious defendant; see Garnett v. Bradley, (1878) 3 App Cas 944.In proceedings between the Crown and a subject the general rule is that the Crown neither ...
Park
Park [fr. parcus, Lat., fr. parco, to spare], a place of privilege for wild beasts of venery, and other wild beasts of the forest and chase; who are to have a firm place and protection there, so that no man may hurt or chase them without licence of the owner. A park differs from a forest, in that, as Compton observes, a subject may hold a park by prescription or royal grant. It differs from a chase because a park must be enclosed; if it lie open, it is a good cause of seizing it into the sovereign's hands, as a free chase may be if it lie enclosed. To a park three things are required-1st, a grant thereof; 2nd, enclosure by pale, wall, or hedge; 3rd, beasts of a park, such as buck, does, etc.; see Sir Charles Howard's case, 1626 Cro Car 59; Pease v. Courtney, (1904) 2 Ch 509. The word 'park,' as used in the (English) Settled Land Acts, is not confined to an ancient legal park but includes an ordinary private park (Pease v. Courtney).Royal Parks.-As to the management of the royal parks s...
Prejudice, without
Prejudice, without, is a term given to overtures and communications between parties in the course of negotiate on, or between litigants before action or after action, but before trial or verdict. The words import an understanding that if the negotiation fails, nothing that has passed shall be taken advantage of thereafter; so, if a defendant offer, 'without prejudice,' to pay half the claim, the plaintiff must not rely on the offer as an admission of his having a right to some payment.The rule is that nothing written or said 'without prejudice' can be considered at the trial without the consent of both parties--not even by a judge in determining whether or not there is good cause for depriving a successful litigant of costs, Walker v. Wilsher, (1889) 23 QBD 335; Hulton v. Chadwick, 35 TLR 620. There must, however, be an existing dispute for the rule to apply [Re Daintrey, (1893) 2 QB 116]. The word is also frequently used without the foregoing implications in statutes and inter partes ...
Supersedeas
Supersedeas, [Lat. 'you shall desist'] a writ that lay in a gret many cases; and signified in general a command, on good cause shown, to stay some ordinary proceedings which ought otherwise to proceed, Fitz. N.B. 236. As to traverse and supersede as of an inquisition in lunacy, see Lunacy Act, 1890, ss. 101-107; and (English) Patients Estates Rules, 1934, S.R. & O., 1934, No. 269/L2, r. 16.; Mills and Poyser, Lunacy Practice....
Mesne process
Mesne process, all those writs which intervene in the progress of a suit or action between its beginning and end, as contradistinguished from primary and final process. Thus, the capias or mesne process was issued after a writ of summons, which was the primary process, and before a capias ad satisfaciendum, which was the final process, or process of execution. See IMPRISONMENT.By the (English) Judgments Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 110), s. 1, the power of arrest upon mesne process was relaxed, and confined to the case of a debtor about to quit England, and where the amount of the debt was 20l. or upwards; and by the (English) Debtors Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 62), s. 6, it is enacted, that 'after the commencement of the Act a person shall not be arrested upon mesne process in any action.' Nevertheless, where a plaintiff has good cause of action against the defendant to the amount of 50l. or upwards, and the defendant is about to quit England, and the absence of the defendant from Engla...
Salary or wages
Salary or wages, means all remuneration (other than remuneration in respect of over-time work) capable of being expressed in terms of money, which would, if the terms of employment, express or implied, were fulfilled, be payable to an employee in respect of his employment or of work done in such employment and includes dearness allowance (that is to say, all cash payments, by whatever name called, paid to an employee on account of a rise in the cost of living), but does not include--(i) any other allowance which the employee is for the time being entitled to;(ii) the value of any house accommodation or of supply of light, water, medical attendance or other amenity or of any service or of any concessional supply of foodgrains or other articles.(iii) any travelling concession;(iv) any bonus (including incentive, production and attendance bonus);(v) any contribution paid or payable by the employer to any pension fund or provident fund or for the benefit of the employee under any law for t...
Passing off
Passing off, in action for passing off pray of actual deception is not necessary two marks bear an ovrall similarity as would be likely to mislead a person usually dealing with one to accept the other if offered to him, it is enough, National Match Works v. S.T. Karuppanna Nadar, AIR 1979 Mad 157.An infringement action is available where there is violation of specific property right acquired under and recognised by the statute. In a passing-off action, however, the plaintiff's right is independent of such a statutory right to a trade mark and is against the conduct of the defendant which leads to or is intended or calculated to lead to deception. Passing-off is said to be a species of unfair trade competition or of actionable unfair trading by which one person, through deception, attempts to obtain an economic benefit of the reputation which another has established for himself in a particular trade or business. The action is regarded as an action for deceit. The tort of passing-off inv...
Sale or purchase of goods shall be deemed....inter-State trade or commerce
Sale or purchase of goods shall be deemed....inter-State trade or commerce, According to s. 3 of the Act, a sale or purchase of goods shall be deemed to take place in the course of inter-State trade or commerce. A sale of goods can be held to have taken place in the course of inter-State trade, if it can be shown that the sale has occasioned the movement of goods from one State to another. A sale in the course of inter-State trade has three essentials: (i) there must be sale, (ii) the goods must actually be moved from one State to another and (iii) the sale the movement of the goods must be part of the same transaction. The word 'occasions' is used as a verb and means to cause or to be the immediate cause of, Kelvinator of India Ltd. v. State of Haryana, AIR 1973 SC 2526: (1973) 2 SCC 551: (1974) 1 SCR 463....
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