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Intervention. A third person not originally a party to a suit, but claiming an interest in the matter, may interpose at any stage of the suit in defence of his own interest, whenever affected either as to person or property. This is called intervention, and was peculiar to the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts. It is now practised in actions or suits in the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court. An intervener must take the cause as he finds it at the time of his intervention, and can only do what he might have done had he been a party in the first instance; but the Court may relax this rule under special circumstances.In probate actions, any person not named in the writ may intervene and appear in the action as heretofore on filing an affidavit showing that he is interested in the estate of the deceased [(English) R.S.C., Ord. XII., r. 23]. And in an Admiralty action it rem any person not named in the writ may intervene and appear as heretofore on filing an affid...
Erewhile
Some time ago a little while before heretofore...
Erstwhile
Till then or now heretofore formerly...
Formerly
In time past either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance of old heretofore...
Heretofore
Up to this time hitherto before in time past...
Crown
Crown [fr. Couronne, Fr.; corona, Lat.], an ornamental badge of regal power worn on the head by sovereign princes. The word is frequently used when speaking of the sovereign himself, or the rights, duties, and prerogatives belonging to him.The Act of Supremacy (English) (1 Eliz. C. 1), 'restoring to the Crown the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesistical and Spiritual and abolishing all Foreign Power repugnant to the same,' after repealing 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 8, reviving the Foreign Citations Act,the Act of Appeals, Abolition of Annates Act, the Act of Submission, the Confirmation of Bishops Act, the Archiepiscopal Licenses Act (23 Hen. 8, Contract Act, 1872 '. 9, 20; 24 Hen. 8, c. 12 l 25 Hen. 8, Contract Act, 1872 -. 19-21; 26 Hen. 8, c. 14; 28 Hen. 8, c. 16), and also repealing 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 6 (see HERESY), enacted that-Such jurisdictions, privileges, superiorities and pre-eminences spiritual and ecclesiastical as by any spiritualor ecclesiastical power or authority hath her...
Devenerunt
Devenerunt, an obsolete writ, heretofore directed to the escheator on the death of the heir of the king's tenant, under age and in custody, commanding the escheator that, by the oaths of good and lawful men, he inquire what lands and tenements, by the death of the tenant, came to the king, Dyer, 860....
Public street
Public street, means any street, road square, court, alley, passage or riding path over which the public have a right of way whether a thoroughfare or not and includes (a) the roadway over any public bridge or causeway; (b) the foot-way attached to any such street, public bridge or causeway; and (c) the drains attached to any such street, public bridge or causeway and the land, whether covered or not by any pavement, veranda, or other structure, which lies on either side of the roadway up to the boundaries of the adjacent property, whether that property is private property or property belonging to the government. [Madras City Municipal Corporation Act, 1919, s. 2(20)]Public street, shall mean any street--(i) heretofore levelled, pared, mettaled, channeled sweered or repaired out of municipal or other public fund; unless before such work was carried out, there was an agreement with the proprietor that the street should not thereby become a public street, or unless such work was done wit...
Sicut alias
Sicut alias, as at another time, or heretofore. This was a second writ sent out when the first was not executed....
Slough silver
Slough silver, a rent paid to the castle of Wigmore, in lieu of certain days' work in harvest, heretofore reserved to the lord from his tenants, Cowel....
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