Grievances - Law Dictionary Search Results
Relating to
words 'relating to' are of wide import and can take in their sweep any suit in which the grievance is made that the defendant is threatening to illegally recover possession from the plaintiff-licensee. Suits for protecting such
Offence of adultery
woman. Indeed, the section provides expressly that the wife shall not be punishable even as an abettor. No grievance can then be made that the section does not allow the wife to prosecute the husband for adultery.
Monopoly
grants were common before the Stuarts, and were very oppressive and injurious during the reign of Elizabeth. The grievance became so insupportable that, notwithstanding the power of granting monopolies was a valuable part of the prerogative, they
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Lex non debet deficere conquerentibus in justitia exhibenda
in justitia exhibenda [Lat.], the law ought not to fail in dispensing justice to those with a serious grievance.
Injunction
of being compensated by damages, or as from its continuance or permanent mischief must occasion a constantly recurring grievance which cannot be otherwise adequately prevented than by an injunction; as where the injury is irreparable or where
legitimate
obligations under the law as the child of such birth 2 : being neither spurious nor false [a grievance] 3 : being in accordance with law or with established legal forms and requirements [a government] 4 :
Double complaint, or Double quarrel
Double complaint, or Double quarrel, duplex querela, a grievance made known by a clerk or other person, to the archbishop of the province, against the ordinary, for
Assign
old practice, a pleading by the plaintiff following the defendant's plea wherein the plaintiff pointed out the exact grievance meant to be complained of in his declaration, and not met by the defendant in his plea. The
Articles, Lords of the
appeared inconsistent with the freedom of Parliament, and at the Revolution, the convention of Estates declared it a grievance, and accordingly it was suppressed by the Act of 1690, c. 3. See Burnet's Hist. Of his Own
remonstrance
earnest presentation of reasons in opposition to something ;specif : a document formally stating points of opposition or grievance
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