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Incorporeity

The quality of being incorporeal immateriality

Accommodation Bill

to some other person; he is liable on the bill to a holder for value; and it is immaterial whether, when such holder took the bill, he knew such party to be an accommodation party or not.

Food and sale

or 'whether for cash or credit or by way of exchange' are intended to emphasise that it is immaterial for the purposes of the Act what manner and method of sale is adopted. To give any other

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Affirmation

Act, 1911 (1 & Geo. 5, c. 6), the forms and ceremonies used in administering an oath are immaterial, and the expression 'oath' in the Act includes 'affirmation'; see s. 15. See the (English) False Oaths (Scotland)

Arrestment jurisdictionis fundand' causa

to the Court's jurisdiction. The value of the property, so long as it has some merchantable value, is immaterial. This process does not prevent the third party from disposing of the property.

Black mail

(English) Larceny Act, 1916, s. 29. A threatening demand without jurisdiction; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. It is immaterial to this offence whether the party threatened be innocent or guilty, R. v. Gardner, (1824) 1 C&P 479.

Breaking bulk

of a bailee which made him liable for felony. Since the (English) Larceny Act, 1861, this distinction is immaterial, and remains so under the Larceny Act, 1916. The expression 'breaking bulk' is an expression not unknown to

Bribe

had passed them after acceptance of a bribe from the seller. In such a case it is an immaterial inquiry to what extent the bribe or the offer of it influenced the person to whom it was

Chattels or catals

term, i.e., a period accurately ascertained, during which the estate or interest is to endure, and it is immaterial that the interests may come to an end sooner; e.g., a lease for 99 years if A. shall

Curtesy of England

127. (4) Birht of issue, alive and during the mother's existence (Paine's case, 8 Rep. 34). It is immaterial whether the issue live or die, or whether it be born before or after the wife's seisin. If

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