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To stand or not to stand as a candidate
to be a candidate a person should have been duly nominated as a candidate. But it may sometimes happen that though a person claims to have been duly nominated, the validity of his nomination is in dispute:
Transubstantiation
the presence of the lords and commons therein assembled or at his or her coronation (which shall first happen),' to 'make subscribe and audibly repeate' the Declaration, as also did, in the case of many officials, etc.,
Vested interest
if the right of enjoyment is made dependent upon some event or condition which may or may not happen. On the happening of the event or condition a contingent interest becomes a vested interest, Quoted from B.N.
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Vested remainder
is limited or transmitted to a person who is capable of receiving the possession, should the particular estate happen to determine: as a limitation to A. for life, remainder to B. and his heirs; here, as B.
Weight of evidence
weight of the evidence, the judge who tried the cause is consulted, and it does not very often happen that a new trial is ordered if he reports that he is satisfied with the verdict (R.S.C. Ord.
Jus
qu' ex inopinato. D. 1, 3, 3.--(Law ought to be made with a view to those cases which happen most frequently, and not to those which are of rare or accidental occurrence.)
Insurance
first actually pays a certain sum, and the latter undertakes to pay a larger, if an accident should happen. The one renders his property secure; the other receives money with the probability that it is clear gain.
Incidental
Incidental, the word 'incidental' means according to Webster's New World Dictionary: 'happening or likely to happen as a result of or in connection with something more important; being an incident; casual; hence, secondary or
Impossible
impossible when according to the ordinary course of human events, no expectation can be entertained that it will happen, Shephard v. Kottgen, (1877) 47 LJQB 67.
Distringas
his chattels; or a scire facias might be issued against a third person in whose hands they might happen to be, to show cause why they should not be delivered; and if the defendant still continued obstinate,
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