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Baron and feme
Baron and feme [fr.], husband and wife. A wife being under the protection and influence of her Baron, lord, or husband, is styled a feme-covert (f'mina viro cooperta), and her state of marriage is called her...
National insurance
National insurance. The (English) National Insur-ance Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 55), introduced by Mr. Lloyd George, established a wide system of compulsory state insurance covering both ill-health and unemployment, which is based...
Next friend
Next friend. At law, an infant having a guardian might sue by his guardian, as such, or by his next friend, though he must always have defended by his guardian. In equity he sued by next...
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Prince
Prince [fr. princeps, Latt.], a sovereign; a chief ruler of either sex. 'Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex for her princely virtues, Camden.
Obtain maintenance from
Obtain maintenance from, the word 'obtain' as used in the proviso is also, in court opinion, significant. It does not merely mean that the widow is somehow managing to live with or is being maintained by...
Offence of
Offence of, Rape in its simplest term is 'the ravishment of a woman, without her consent, by force, fear or fraud, or as 'the carnal knowledge of a woman by force against her will. (Co. Litt...
Pardanashin lady
Pardanashin lady, means the women who, accord-ing to the customs, ought not to be compelled to appear in public, shall be exempt from personal appearance in court. [Code of Civil Procedure, 1989, s. 132] A lady...
Paternity
Paternity. The general rule is that 'pater vero is est quem nupti' demonstrant' (Dig. Lib. 2, tit. 4, 1. 5). For a discussion of the law on the subject of paternity and the cases in which...
Name
Name [fr. nomen, Lat.; nom, Fr.; or namo, Goth.; nama, Sax.; naem, Dut.], the discriminative appellation of an individual. Proper names are either Christian names, as being given at baptism, or surnames, from the father, 4...
Cui in vita
Cui in vita (to whominlife). A writ of entry for a widow against him to whom her husband aliened her lands or tenements in his lifetime; which must contain in it, that during his life she...
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