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New trial

New trial. If any defect of judgment happen from causes wholly extrinsic, i.e., arising from matters foreign to or dethors the record, the only remedy the party injured by it has (except formerly error coram nobis...

Wages

Wages, if the remuneration is to be paid daily or weekly, it can be called wages. But when it is monthly remuneration payable on the last day of the month or after that date, and when...

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Separation

Separation. If a husband and wife cannot agree so as to carry out the purpose of their union, they may resolve to live apart. A deed of separation, containing the terms and conditions upon which an...

Workmen

Workmen, if a person is mainly doing supervisory work, but, incidentally or for a fraction of the time, also does some clerical work, it would have to be held that he is employed in supervisory capacity;...

Impossibility

Impossibility. If a man contract to do a thing which is absolutely impossible by its nature, such contract will not bind him--lex non cogit ad impossibilia, e.g., where the subject-matter has perished before date of contract,...

Open market

Open market, if the transactions of sale and pur-chase are effected under conditions enabling every person desirous of purchasing the goods in question to place orders with such manufacturing unit and obtain supplies, they will constitute...

Fraudulent settlement

Fraudulent settlement. If a marriage settlement comprises property without which the settlor can-not pay his debts, or contain a covenant for the future settlement of property in which the settlor has no present interest, then, if...

Obscene

Obscene, means if there be no abstract definition ........ Should not the word 'obscene' be allowed to indicate the present critical point in the compromise between candor and shame at which the community may have arrived...

Consolidating actions

Consolidating actions. If several actions between the same parties were brought, and were pending for the same cause, or substantially so, the court may stay the proceedings in all but one. And if two or more...

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