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indictment) to an office or tribunal [the sheriff must the execution…to the proper clerk within sixty days "J. H. Friedenthal et al."] [the grand jury ed six indictments] [ed a verdict of not guilty] 2 : to … official account or report) to a superior (as by a list or statement) [ the names of all residents in the ward] [ a list of jurors] b : to bring back (as a writ, verdict, or
Act of Bankruptcy
Act of Bankruptcy, an act, the commission of which by a debtor renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt if the petition is presented within three months thereafter. Under s. 1
Hundred Court
Hundred Court, a larger Court-baron, being held for all the inhabitants of a particular hundred instead of a manor. … the steward the registrar, as in the case of court-baron. It was not a Court of record; it resembled a court-baron in all points except that in point of territory it was of a greater jurisdiction. It
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claim
discomforted that they had to have their stomachs pumped "J. J. White and R. S. Summers"] see also res judicata NOTE: A cause of action may encompass more than one claim as the term is used in … court] 2 : a title to something (as a debt or privilege) in the possession of another [assigned her to the proceeds] 3 a : a right to seek a judicial remedy arising from a wrong or
Wills
Wills. A will is the valid disposition by a living person, to take effect after his death, of his disposable property. ''But in law ultima voluntas in scriptis is used, where lands or tenements … at the time of the last sickness of the deceased, and in his dwelling-house or where he had resided ten days before; that after six months no nuncupative will should be proved, unless the words or their
Judgment
hearing the preliminary objections raised by the defendant relating to maintainability of the suit, e.g., bar of jurisdiction, res judicata, a manifest defect in the suit, absence of notice under s. 80 and the like, and these … Common Law Courts, the term 'decree' being in general use in the Court of Chancery. The expression 'Judg-ment,' however, is now used generally except in matrimonial causes, the term 'judgment' including 'decree' [(English) Jud. Act, 1925, s.
declaration
made by a party to a legal transaction [the attorney must later sign an affidavit or stating that he has informed the debtor "J. H. Williamson"] c : a statement not under oath being offered as evidence … no hope of recovery and that concerns the circumstances or cause of the presumed death compare excited utterance, res gestae NOTE: Dying declarations are an exception to the hearsay rule and can be admitted as evidence only
Competent authority
Competent authority, means (i) the speaker in the case of the House of the people or the legislative Assembly of a State or a Union Territory having such Assembly and … Means, in relation to the United Kingdom, the CAA, and in relation to any other country the authority responsible under the law of that country for promoting the safety of civil aviation, Air Navigation Order 1989, SI
Gavelkind
Saxon word 'gafol,' or, as it is otherwise written, 'gavel,' which signifies 'rent' or a 'customary performance of husbandry works'; accordingly the land which yielded this kind of service, in contradistinction to knight-service land, was called 'GAVELKIND' … coming in his stated jure representationis.' This custom extended also to the collateral line, for it has been resolved that where one brother dies without issue, all the other brothers shall inherit from him; and in default
Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English)
the protection to tenants and mortgagees of dwelling-houses afforded by the later Acts was made necessary by the housing shortage, caused principally by the economic effects of the war. The Courts (Emergency Powers) Act,1914 (4 & 5 … Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English). A series of statutes, each of a temporary character, curtailing the contractual rights, in respect of certain classes of property, of landlords and mortgagees. This legislation was rendered necessary, in the first instance,
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