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Marz-ool-maut
Marz-ool-maut, under the Mohemmedan Law, the term 'marz-ool-maut' is applicable not only to disease which actually cause death but to diseases from which it is probable that death will ensure so as to engender in the...
Nonplus
A state or condition which baffles reason or confounds judgment insuperable difficulty inability to proceed or decide puzzle quandary
Semi Pelagian
A follower of John Cassianus a French monk died about 448 who modified the doctrines of Pelagius by denying human merit and maintaining the necessity of the Spirits influence while on the other hand he rejected...
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Deputy
Deputy [fr. depute, Fr.], one who governs and acts instead of another, or who exercises an office, etc., in another man's right. By the Sheriffs Act, 1887 (see SHERIFF), every sheriff is directed to appoint a...
Act of Bankruptcy
Act of Bankruptcy, an act, the commission of which by a debtor renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt if the petition is presented within three months thereafter. Under s. 1 of the (English) Bankruptcy...
Cannot
Cannot, The word 'cannot' emphatically connotes a situation of impasse. In Shorter Oxford Dictionary, 3rd Edn., at page 255, the word 'can' is defined as 'to be able; to have power or capacity'. The word 'cannot',...
Court of competent jurisdiction
Court of competent jurisdiction, the expression 'a Court of competent jurisdiction' envisaged in s. 465 is to denote a validity constituted Court conferred with jurisdiction to try the offence or offences. Such a Court will not...
Declaration of insolvency
Declaration of insolvency, a declaration by any person of inability to pay his debts which, when filed in the Bankruptcy Court, amounts to an 'act of bankruptcy.'-(English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c....
Loss
Loss, the word 'loss' used in Railway Act can never mean loss to the owner, it means that the goods have disappeared in the course of transit and neither the railway nor the consignor nor the...
Fer' natur', animals
Fer' natur', animals. Beasts and birds of a wild disposition, such as deer, hares, coneys in a warren, pheasants, partridges, etc., as distingui-shed from those domit' natur', or tame, such as horses, sheep, poultry, etc. They...
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Inablement - Law Dictionary Search Results
Marz-ool-maut
Marz-ool-maut, under the Mohemmedan Law, the term 'marz-ool-maut' is applicable not only to disease which actually cause death but to diseases from which it is probable that death will ensure so as to engender in the...
Nonplus
A state or condition which baffles reason or confounds judgment insuperable difficulty inability to proceed or decide puzzle quandary
Semi Pelagian
A follower of John Cassianus a French monk died about 448 who modified the doctrines of Pelagius by denying human merit and maintaining the necessity of the Spirits influence while on the other hand he rejected...
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Deputy
Deputy [fr. depute, Fr.], one who governs and acts instead of another, or who exercises an office, etc., in another man's right. By the Sheriffs Act, 1887 (see SHERIFF), every sheriff is directed to appoint a...
Act of Bankruptcy
Act of Bankruptcy, an act, the commission of which by a debtor renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt if the petition is presented within three months thereafter. Under s. 1 of the (English) Bankruptcy...
Cannot
Cannot, The word 'cannot' emphatically connotes a situation of impasse. In Shorter Oxford Dictionary, 3rd Edn., at page 255, the word 'can' is defined as 'to be able; to have power or capacity'. The word 'cannot',...
Court of competent jurisdiction
Court of competent jurisdiction, the expression 'a Court of competent jurisdiction' envisaged in s. 465 is to denote a validity constituted Court conferred with jurisdiction to try the offence or offences. Such a Court will not...
Declaration of insolvency
Declaration of insolvency, a declaration by any person of inability to pay his debts which, when filed in the Bankruptcy Court, amounts to an 'act of bankruptcy.'-(English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c....
Loss
Loss, the word 'loss' used in Railway Act can never mean loss to the owner, it means that the goods have disappeared in the course of transit and neither the railway nor the consignor nor the...
Fer' natur', animals
Fer' natur', animals. Beasts and birds of a wild disposition, such as deer, hares, coneys in a warren, pheasants, partridges, etc., as distingui-shed from those domit' natur', or tame, such as horses, sheep, poultry, etc. They...
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