Insufficiency - Law Dictionary Search Results
Riot Damages Act, 1886
no compensa-tion for property stolen. A serious riot occurring in the metropolis on February 8th, 1886, and disclosing insufficiency in the law of compensation led very quickly to the Metropolitan Police Compensation Act, 1886 (49 & 50
Stamp duties
condition of sale framed with a view of precluding objection or requisition upon the ground of absence or insufficiency of stamp upon any instrument executed after 16th May, 1888, and abridged, from twelve months to three, the
Unless and until the contrary is proved
presumption contemplated by the use of the words 'unless and until the contrary is proved'. The sufficiency or insufficiency of any evidence to remove such a presumption is a matter of evidence, M.L. Devender Singh v. Syed
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Demurrer
that assumes the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party and set up that it is insufficient in law to sustain his claim or that there is some other defect on the face of the
Petition of Right
this, however, the ministers of the Crown caused the petition to be printed and circulated with the first insufficient answer, See Hall, Const. Hist. Ch. vii.
Exception
a demurrer. In Chancery, exceptions might be taken to pleadings if scandalous, and if a defendant's answer were insufficient, the plaintiff might file exceptions to it, Sm. Ch. Pr. 344, 786. An exception, in a conveyance, must
Gentleman
in the Audit Office) of a bill of sale (see that title) as a gentleman was held an insufficient description in Allen v. Thompson, (1856) 1 H. & N. 15; and so of a deponent to the
Judgment of acquittal
defendant's motion or court's own motion, that acquits the defendant of the offense charged when the evidence is insufficient, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 847.
Knowledge of the decree
him. It is a question of fact in each case whether the information conveyed to the defendant is insufficient to impute to him knowledge of the decree within the meaning of Art. 164. The test of the
Notice of dishonour
may be given in writing or by personal communication. If written it need not be signed, and an insufficient written notice may be supplemented by a verbal communication (sub-ss. 5, 7). The notice may (sub-s. 12) be
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