Inquiring - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: inquiringInquirable
Capable of being inquired into subject or liable to inquisition or inquest...
Inquirent
Making inquiry inquiring questioning...
Inquirer
One who inquires or examines questioner investigator...
Inquiring
Given to inquiry disposed to investigate causes curious as an inquiring mind...
Inquiringly
In an inquiring manner...
Commission to inquire of faults against the law
Commission to inquire of faults against the law, anciently set forth an extraordinary occasions and corruptions....
To inquire
To inquire, is 'to ask, to seek', Chambers 20th Century Dictionary; Real Value Appliances Ltd. v. Canara Bank, (1998) 5 SCC 554....
Coroner
Coroner. A very ancient officer at the Common Law, so called because he has principally to do with pleas of the Crown, appointed in boroughs by the Borough Council under ss. 171-174 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, and in counties by the County Council, under s. 5 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888, prior to which Act county coroners were elected by the freeholders in each county.An early definition of his duties was provided by the statute 'De Officio Coronatoris,' 4 Edw. 1, repealed by the consolidating (English) Coroners Act, 1887, which codifies the law as follows:--Where a coroner is informed that the dead body of a person is lying within his jurisdiction, and there is reasonable cause to suspect that such person has died either a violent or an unnatural death, or has died a sudden death of which the cause is unknown, or that such person has dies in prison, or in such place or under such circumstances as to require an inquest in pursuance of any Act, the...
Inquisitor
Inquisitor, any officer, as a sheriff coroner, etc., having power to inquire into certain matters.Means (1) An officer who examines and inquires, such as a coroner of sheriff (2) A person who in-quires; esp., one who examines another in a harsh or hostile manner (3) An officer authorised to inquire into heresies; esp., an officer of the Spanish Inquisition, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 796...
notice
notice 1 a : a notification or communication of a fact, claim, demand, or proceeding see also process, service NOTE: The requirements of when, how, and what notice must be given to a person are often prescribed by a statute, rule, or contract. b : awareness of such a fact, claim, demand, or proceeding actual notice 1 : actual awareness or direct notification of a specific fact, demand, claim, or proceeding [had actual notice of the meeting] called also express notice 2 : implied notice in this entry constructive notice : notice that one exercising ordinary care and diligence as a matter of duty would possess and esp. that is imputed by law rather than from fact [held to have constructive notice of the prior recorded deed] compare recording act express notice : actual notice in this entry implied notice : notice that is imputed to a party having knowledge of a fact or circumstance that would cause a reasonable party to inquire further or having possession of a means of know...
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