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Bishop
Bishop [fr. 'plokopoV, Gk. Biscop, Sax.], an overseer or superintendent. The chief of the clergy in his diocese or jurisdiction in England, Wales, or Ireland, and the archbishop's suffragan or assistant. A bishop is elected by...
Coadjutor
Coadjutor, an assistant, helper, or ally: particularly a person appointed to assist a bishop, who from age of infirmity is unable to perform his duty: and see SUFFRAGAN.
County Courts
County Courts. The old County Court was a tribunal inident to the jurisdiction of a sheriff, but was not a Court of Record. Proceedings were removable into a superior court by recordari facias loquelam, or writ...
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Damages
Damages, constitute the sum of money claimed or adjudged to be paid in compensation for loss or injury sustained, the value estimated in money, of something lost or withheld, Divisional Controller K.S.R.T.C. v. Mahadeva Shetty, (2003)...
Legally and Justly due
Legally and Justly due, the expression 'legally and justly due' must, mean that before a claim is recognised by the Claims Officer he must be satisfied that the principal amount covered by that claim is 'legally...
Discovery
Discovery, revealing or disclosing matter. The Courts of Common Law were originally unable to compel a litigant to disclose any fact resting merely within his knowledge, or discover any document in his power, which would aid...
Essoin, Essoigne, Assoign
Essoin, Essoigne, Assoign [fr. essonium, Lat.; essoine, Fr.; ex, priv., and soing, cura; ab angusta cura, vel labore liberare, which is a more probable derivation than Gk.; though it signifies to excuse by means of an...
Health
Health, The state of being sound or whole in body, mind, or soul; freedom from pain or sickness, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. Health, See QUARANTINE; ADULTERATION; VACCINATION; and PUBLIC HEALTH. The term health implies more...
Judge
Judge [fr. juge, Fr.; judex, Lat.], one invested with authority to determine any cause or question in a Court of judicature. The word 'judge' denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a judge...
Person of unsound mind
Person of unsound mind, a term by which in a more enlightened age persons afflicted with a mental illness affecting their reason are to be known, as distinguished from Idiots, Imbeciles, Feeble-minded Persons and Moral Defectives...
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