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Inconsequence

The quality or state of being inconsequent lack of just or logical inference or argument inconclusiveness...

Inconsequent

Not following from the premises not regularly inferred invalid not characterized by logical method illogical arbitrary inconsistent of no consequence...

Ac Etiam [and also]. The introduction to the statement of the real cause of action in cases where it was necessary to allege a fictitious cause in order to give the Court jurisdiction, Bouvier's Law Dict. The ac etiam clause appears to have been invented inconsequence of the enactment of 13 Car. 2, St. 2, c. 2, that the particular cause of action must be expressed in the writ where more than 40l. was claimed, Davison v. Frost, (1802) 2 East 305. See also LATITAT and BILL OF MIDDLESEX....

Discontinuance

Discontinuance, an interruption or breaking off. This happened when he who had an estate-tail made a larger estate of the land than by law he was entitled to do; in which case the estate was good, so far as his power extended to make it, but no further, Finch, L. 190; 1 Rep. 44. The learning relative to discontinuances has now become of no account, as far as future transactions are concerned, not merely inconsequence of the abolition of fines, but by the effect of the Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27), which provides (s. 39) that no discontinuance shall thereafter avail to take away the right of entry.Discontinuance by the plaintiff in an action in the High Court is governed by R. S. C., Ord. XXVI.; and in the county Court by C. C. Rules, Ord. IX. In either Court there must be notice in writing (of which there are prescribed forms, which, though not compulsory, it is desirable to use), which in the county Court is to be given by post or otherwise to the registrar,...

Dissenters Chapels Act

Dissenters Chapels Act (7 & 8 Vict. c. 45), (statutory title, 'The (English) Nonconformist Chapels Act, 1844'), an Act passed in 1844 for the relief of Unitarians, though it applies to Nonconformists of every description. Its effect is to exclude, by a special law of limitation made for that express purpose, all inquiry into the conformity or otherwise of the doctrines taught or ritual practised in any chapel or meeting-house of any Non-conformist body, or the intentions of the founders by whom the building or its accessories or endowments were given, when such doctrines have been taught there, or such ritual practised, for the last twenty-five years; unless they are, in express terms, prohibited or excluded by some written instrument governing the foundation. The Act was passed inconsequence of the decision in what is commonly known as 'Lady Hewley's Case', Shore v. Wilson, (1842) 9 Cl&F 355, in which it was held by the House of Lords that Unitarian congregations, inspite of long and ...

Joint-tenancy

Joint-tenancy. This tenancy is created where the same interest in real or personal property is, by the act of the party, passed by the same matter of conveyance or claim in solido, and not as merchan-dise, or for purposes of speculation, to two or more persons in the same right, either simply, or by construction or operation of law jointly, with a jus accrescendi, that is, a gradual concentration of property from more to fewer, by the accession of the part of him or them that die to the survivors or survivor, till it passes to a single hand, and the joint-tenancy ceases.Anciently, joint-tenancy was favoured because it did not induce fractions of estates, and returning to early principles the (English) Land Legislation of 1925 has employed the tenure generally as the machinery by which legal estate may in such cases always be in some person, called the estate owner, who is competent to give a title to the whole estate without the concurrence of other parties. that legal estate has been ...

Lesion

Lesion, the injury suffered inconsequence of inequality of situation by one who does not obtain a full equivalent for what he gives in a commutative contract, Civ. Law....

Press

Press. By the (English) Local Authorities (Admission of the Press to Meetings) Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 43), passed inconsequence of the decision in Tenby Corporation v. Mason, (1908) 1 Ch 457, the ex-pression 'representatives of the Press' means duly accredited representatives of newspapers and duly accredited representatives of news agencies which systematically carry on the business of selling and supplying reports and information to newspapers. Though the Act gives a general right of admission, there is power by resolution temporarily to exclude the Press. See LOCAL AUTHORITY.There is no longer any censorship of the Press in this country, and any man may write and publish whatever he pleases concerning another, subject only to this--that he must take the consequences, if a jury should deem his words defamatory (Odgers on Libel, p. 10). 'The liberty of the Press consists in printing without any previous licence, subject to the consequences of law', R. v. Dean of St. Asaph, (1784) 3 T...

Seaworthy

Seaworthy, a term applied to a ship, indicating that she is, in every respect, fit for her voyage. It is provided in all charter-parties that the vessel chartered shall be tight, staunch, and strong, well apparelled, furnished with an adequate number of mariners, sufficient tackle, provisions, etc. If the ship be insufficient in any of these particulars, the owners, though ignorant of the circumstance, will be liable for whatever damage may inconsequence be done to the goods of the merchant, and if any insurance have been effected upon her it will be void. In a voyage policy a warranty of seaworthiness is implied, but not in a time policy, see Dudgeon v. Pembroke, (1877) 2 App Cas 284. But see Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1924, s. 2 and Sch., Art. III. 1 and Art. IV. 2, and Merchant and Shipping Act, 1894, ss. 457, 459....

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