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Costs

person properly attending to give evidence for the prosecution or defence, or called to give evidence at the instance of the court, for the expense, trouble, or loss of time properly incurred in or incidental to the

Embezzlement

he is not guilty of embezzlement. But if he have been employed to receive it in a single instance, he need not be a general servant. Partners stealing or embezzling money, etc., belonging to the co-partnership may

Course of public justice

the risk of an innocent person being subjected to wrongful arrest might be the greater in the former instance, it remained wherever the offence was descried with sufficient particularity to justify a significant police investigation, R. v.

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Criminal information

leave of the Court. (2) Information by the Master of the Crown Office, which is filed at the instance of an individual called 'the relator,' with the leave of the Court; and usually confined to gross and

Mancipatio

subjection and made free he must be twice sold and bought, his natural father being in the first instance the vendor. The vendee was called pater fiduciarius. After this fictitious bargain, the pater fiduciarius sold him again

Deceit

337]. Under the (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 37, a special action for deceit will lie at the instance of any subscriber for shares or debentures who has subscribed for these on the faith of a prospectus

Decree nisi

Judicature Act,1925, s. 183(1) every decree for a divorce or for nullity of marriage shall, in the first instance, be a decree nisi not to be made absolute until after the expiration of six months from the

Deed

(II.) Those making it voidable, not being void from the beginning; as (a) By dissent of parties, for instance the repudiation of an infant's deed after majority. (b) By dissent of strangers, as the grantee of a

Deposit

divisible into two kinds: (1) necessary, made upon some sudden emergency, and from some pressing necessity; as, for instance, in case of a fire, a shipwreck, or other overwhelming calamity, when property is confided to any person

Discussion

if other persons are joined with him in the obligation as sureties, he is not in the first instance to be proceeded against for the whole debt, but only for his share of it, if his co-sureties

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Costs

person properly attending to give evidence for the prosecution or defence, or called to give evidence at the instance of the court, for the expense, trouble, or loss of time properly incurred in or incidental to the

Embezzlement

he is not guilty of embezzlement. But if he have been employed to receive it in a single instance, he need not be a general servant. Partners stealing or embezzling money, etc., belonging to the co-partnership may

Course of public justice

the risk of an innocent person being subjected to wrongful arrest might be the greater in the former instance, it remained wherever the offence was descried with sufficient particularity to justify a significant police investigation, R. v.

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Criminal information

leave of the Court. (2) Information by the Master of the Crown Office, which is filed at the instance of an individual called 'the relator,' with the leave of the Court; and usually confined to gross and

Mancipatio

subjection and made free he must be twice sold and bought, his natural father being in the first instance the vendor. The vendee was called pater fiduciarius. After this fictitious bargain, the pater fiduciarius sold him again

Deceit

337]. Under the (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 37, a special action for deceit will lie at the instance of any subscriber for shares or debentures who has subscribed for these on the faith of a prospectus

Decree nisi

Judicature Act,1925, s. 183(1) every decree for a divorce or for nullity of marriage shall, in the first instance, be a decree nisi not to be made absolute until after the expiration of six months from the

Deed

(II.) Those making it voidable, not being void from the beginning; as (a) By dissent of parties, for instance the repudiation of an infant's deed after majority. (b) By dissent of strangers, as the grantee of a

Deposit

divisible into two kinds: (1) necessary, made upon some sudden emergency, and from some pressing necessity; as, for instance, in case of a fire, a shipwreck, or other overwhelming calamity, when property is confided to any person

Discussion

if other persons are joined with him in the obligation as sureties, he is not in the first instance to be proceeded against for the whole debt, but only for his share of it, if his co-sureties

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