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Obsolete
the law is otherwise: see Bell's Law Dict., tit. 'Desuetude,' and so in the Civil Law desuetude works invalidity. As to the English Common Law, Wager of Battel survived till 1819 and required a statute, or was
Family unit
to be aggregated with the lands of other members of the family unit not because the partition is invalid but because the land held by him, howsoever acquired, is liable to be clubbed with the lands of
Impair
used in reference to diminishing the value of a contractual obligation to the point that the contract becomes invalid or a party loses the benefit of the contract, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 754.
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Illusory Appointments Act, 1830
16th, 1830, in exercise of a power to appoint property, real or personal, among several objects, shall be invalid, or impeached in equity, on the ground that an unsubstantial, illusory, or nominal share only was thereby appointed,
Ignorance of law is no excuse
know that a piece of legislation enacted by a legislature if competent jurisdiction must be held to be invalid, in case it prescribes a differential treatment, and he must therefore, refuse to submit to it or incur
Harmonious construction
the sense which would carry out its objects and reject that which renders the exercise of its powers invalid, New India Sugar Mills Ltd. v. Commissioner, Sales Tax, AIR 1963 SC 1207 (1213).
Hague conference
Matters (The Hague, 15th November, 1965; (1969); Cmnd. 3986): RSC Ord. 11, r. 5(8). The convention does not invalidate any bilateral civil procedure convention already in force. The following countries are parties to the convention: Barbados, Belgium,
Guaranty, or Guarantee
c. 97), provides that no promise to answer for the debt, etc., of another is to be deemed invalid to support an action, by reason that the consideration does not appear in writing (s. 3). By s.
Foreign Attachment
(1881) 6 App Cas 393, which exempts corporations from the process, and decides that fictitious summonses render it invalid. These decisions have had the effect of reducing foreign attachment to little more than a subject of historical
Cruel and unusual treatment
the method of execution for the reasons which he (accused) has put forward and nothing in the constitution invalidates that existing law, Boodram v. Baptiste (PC), (1991) 1 WLR 1711 [Bill of Rights, 1689 (UK).
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