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Illegal contract
a married man pending divorce after decree nisi may be actionable, Fender v. Mildmay, (1937) 53 TLR 885. Illegality super-vening by act or change in the law terminates the contract. See Leake or Chitty on Contracts; Odgers
King
the First of the Canons of 1603. The King is also head of the Army (subject to the illegality of a standing Army, to keep up which an Annual Act of Parliament [see ARMY] is necess-ary), of
Ultra vires
'ultra vires' means 'beyond powers' or 'lack of power'. The term 'ultra virus' signifies a concept distinct from illegality, Anand Prakash v. Assistant Registrar of Co-op. Society, AIR 1968 All 22 (24). Ultra vires, implies, an absence
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Place
an area, and so long as it is clearly specified and well-defined in the order, there is no illegality in including an area as large as a district within the scope of an order. The public generally
defense
3-305(a)(1) of the Uniform Commercial Code sets out the real defenses as infancy, duress, lack of legal capacity, illegality of the transaction, fraud in the factum, and discharge of the obligor by a bankruptcy court. By exclusion,
Condition
be implied bylaw according to the nature of the transaction. A peculiarity of conditions precedent is that an illegal or impossible condition will, as a rule and excepting bequests of personalty (Williams on Executors), avoid the obligation
Rake-off
Rake-off, means a percentage or share taken, especially from an illegal transaction; an illegal bribe, payoff, or skimming of profits, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1266.
Immoral contracts
because it is a specialty (see CONTRACT), and has not been made for an executory consideration of an illegal nature. A covenant to pay money in consideration of future cohabitation is void, though under seal, Ayerst v.
Lex loci contractus
it now exists among savage tribes. The same rule applies to the invalidity of contracts; if void or illegal by the law of the place of the contract, they are generally held void and illegal everywhere. This
Public meeting
and the date of which a return to such writ is made, he shall be guilty of an illegal practice within the meaning of the (English) Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, 1883, and in any other
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