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Poinding
Poinding, the Scots term for taking goods, etc., in execution, or by way of distress. It is defined to be 'the diligence (process) which the law has devised for transferring the property of the debtor to...
Uses
the Common Law were stumbling-blocks to the complicated wants of an enterprising people. Hence ingenuity was sharpened to hit upon a device which should set at nought the rigidity of existing law and formalities. A system was
avulsion
avulsion [Latin avulsio act of tearing away, from avellere to tear away, from a- off, away + vellere to pull, pluck] : a sudden cutting off of land by flood or change in the course of...
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Account or Accompt
Account or Accompt [fr. compte, Fr., computo, Lat.], a registry of debts, credits, and charges, or a detailed statement of a series of receipts (credits) and disbursements (debits) of money-which have taken place between two or...
Common
Common, a profit which a man has in the land of another; it derives its name from the community of interest which thence arises between the claimant and the owner of the soil, or between the...
In the son or daughter of such a female
In the son or daughter of such a female, even in the absence of the words which were inserted by the Amendment Act of 1964 in s. 15(2)(b) the only possible interpretation and meaning of the...
Trade marks
Trade marks. by the Trade Marks Act, 1905 (English) (5 Edw. 7, c. 15), s. 3:- A 'mark' shall include a device, brand, heading, label, ticket, name, signature, word, letter, numeral or any combination thereof. A...
Man, Isle of
Man, Isle of (Mona), in the Irish Sea, off the coast of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, granted by Henry the Fourth and James the First to members of the Stanley family, whose successor in the female...
Adjournment
Adjournment [fr. jour, Fr., a day], a putting off to another time or place, a continuation of a meeting from one day to another. An adjourned meeting is in ordinary cases a mere continuation of the...
Solicitor
Solicitor, an officer of the Supreme Court of Judicature, who, and who only, is entitled to 'sue out any writ or process, or commence, carry on, solicit, or defend any action, suit or other proceeding' in...
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